Awarded at the AEG Kitchen Design Contest, BHR was born from the need to address a contemporary challenge: not to design an “ideal” kitchen according to aesthetic criteria, but to conceive a space that embodies health and awareness, translating these values into AEG’s design language.
We live in an era flooded with products claiming to eliminate 99.9% of bacteria, yet a recent pandemic has forced us to reflect: should we keep relying on the product for safety, or start demanding it from the space itself?
This question gave shape to BHR — a kitchen anchored to the ground only where necessary, while the rest is entirely suspended by a stainless steel frame. A design choice that became a constraint, a guide, and ultimately a defining identity.
Its formal and conceptual foundation lies in Peter Behrens’s proportional system, the “spiritual father” of AEG, and in the principle of variation: the HDPE shelves can be removed, replaced, or altered in shape and color, preserving the structure while transforming the perception of space.
In this sense, BHR is a stable change — a system that remains recognizable yet never the same, balancing memory, function, and transformation.
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