The "Cucina Zero" is the bold and unprecedented project that Debonademeo Studio designed to showcase the innovative spirit of Oikos, a kitchen company from the Marche region with over 30 years of history. This concept was previewed at EDIT Napoli 2024 last week.
Zero means resetting the design and construction methods of the kitchen, starting from a frame that can be adapted to various dimensional requirements. It is dressed in a wide variety of materials and colours according to the taste of the interior designer or the end customer.
In addition to curating the Oikos installation at EDIT Napoli 2024 as art director, Debonademeo Studio, in collaboration with Nerodecò, has redesigned the Oikos brand, including its new corporate identity, website, and social media. The new logo features a graphically open 'O', representing an origin that expresses innovation, clean design, and modernity—core values of Oikos.
The Zero Kitchen by Debonademeo Studio for Oikos received an honourable mention as an unpublished project from the commission of the sixth edition of EDIT Napoli. The jury appreciated 'the ecological approach reflected through theory and applied research.'
The first interpretation of the Zero Kitchen
Designed by Debonademeo Studio, the mock-up displayed at EDIT Napoli 2024 showcases the concept of zeroing the canonical processes of furniture construction in the domestic sphere, starting with the kitchen.
The mock-up features a monolithic island with ecological value, inspired by the colours and materials of the Campania archipelago: the ultramarine blue of the Gulf of Naples dotted with travertine islands. Not only the fronts but even the kitchen top and sink are made of a new material created exclusively for Oikos, composed of recycled hemp fibres from the agricultural chain, offered in various colour variants. For EDIT 2024, it is enriched with fragments of travertine selected from stone processing waste.
The "Abecedarium"
Behind the kitchen units, the display wall tells of the Oikos "Abecedarium" (Alphabet Book), from which one can extract individual elements, materials, finishes, and colours to create a personal kitchen.
The concept of 'Zero Kitchen' subverts conventional rules, placing interior designers at the centre, allowing them to shape a truly unique and original kitchen alongside the customer.
This kitchen is flexible; its modular components allow each model to be characterized and expanded with elements, materials, and colours that can extend beyond the kitchen to other rooms in the home. This implements a perceptive expansion before a physical one, inspired by the Mycenaean 'megaron'—a house formed by a single large room with a large fireplace at its centre, surrounded by furniture.
A new way of producing furniture for any domestic environment involves conceiving and producing components that create a matrix frame adaptable to the space, budget, and needs of each individual client.
The material: 100% recycled and recyclable
The composite material consists of post-consumer recycled hemp fibres and new-generation, VOC-free, solvent-free resins. Available in five colour variants plus a RAL colour of the customer's choice, it has high tensile, compressive, impact, and flexural strength. It is resistant to abrasion, acids, and water, and has high fire resistance.
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