Retrofit: Refunctioning Part One

Part One: New Function to Old Energy

Change and development are considered a part of nature. Every existence undergoes various changes over time. These changes may manifest themselves in many different areas and with many different meanings.

All perceptions, feelings, and beings have reached today by changing and developing their forms with an effort to keep up with the new. While change and development maintain their existence as a part of nature; the acquisition of different functions with the change of beings over time depending on many variables is called Retrofit. In other words, refunctioning of the old energy…

The Return to Nature

Nature that we have moved away with the urban life is starting to make us feel again how much we need it and people are trying to bring nature back to their living spaces in the city.

We tend towards objects and decorations reminding us of nature, the sky and vast forests everywhere we live in; and we seek to rest ourselves with nature in the tiredness of the city…
Respect for Nature

As the desire of people to throw out the things that have become outdated and to buy new ones instead turns into a frenzy of consumption; nature is, beyond doubt, the most affected; because everything consumed turns back as waste.
As the awareness of respecting nature that appears in people as time goes by gets strengthened with the desire for creativity, old objects start to appear more and more with the refunctioning of them to keep their memory alive. Thus, the process of adding character to spaces becomes economical, transformative instead of consumptive, and personalized.

The Most Prominent Examples of Retrofit

Interior and exterior architecture that is in an ongoing state of motion and development under the influence of social, cultural, and historical variables appears as one of the most prominent examples of retrofit.

Today, as the quality time spent at home has increased, esthetic and practical elements have started to come into existence; the houses that have become minimal and more practical have turned into a canvas reflecting the personal tastes of individuals without compromising their esthetic values.

Decoration suggestions that will light the way for your desire to renew and to get renewed with the energy of spring;

You can make a ladder by cutting in appropriate sizes and combining the pieces of wood that you will collect from the garden and forest and use it to hang towels in your bathroom. You can create a warm and natural outlook by letting the leafy branches to hang out from the sides.
You can hang the memorial porcelain plates that cannot be thrown away on the kitchen walls instead of leaving them to their fate in the cupboards, and thus use them as vintage wall decorations.
You can feel the tree and nature again by positioning solid and hard furniture including MDF-Laminated/Melamine Faced Particle Board products such as Atlantis and Haliç (Golden Horn) with distinctive wooden details in the places.
You can use Mona from Yıldız Trend MDF-Laminated/Melamine Faced Particle Board product group as a wall panel, and create a natural space by including the delicate details of the wood in your living space.
Part One: New Function to Old Energy