Zhuoyi Shoe Cabinet Design With Variable Space

As a result of the rapid development of China’s economy, the increasing improvement of the living standard and the change of the consumption idea, the requirements for home living condition continue to increase. The household products not only need to have the feature of comfort and high quality, but also should enjoy some certain ornamental value. The household products should meet the growing spiritual needs while they satisfy the material and cultural needs. People choose shoe cabinet according to these needs as well. But most shoe cabinets in current market are with single function and poor coordination, and are not well integrated into the overall interior design.As we pursue the high quality of shoe cabinet, their functions also change from the single purpose of storing shoes to decorative multi-functions including intelligentized deodorization, sterilization, dehydration and so on. However, due to the lack of analysis of shoe cabinet’s function, even the intelligentized shoe cabinet only applies the technology, but with little change of the appearance design and relatively low humanization design. Taking users as a starting point, the household shoe cabinet design should take the physiological and psychological needs and material and spiritual needs into consideration and consider the user’s body scale and habits to make it easier and more comfortable to use, to make the space utilization more reasonable and to make the function more complete.Based on the a large amount of researches about shoe cabinet, this research makes full analysis of the features of the various kinds of shoe cabinets, and combining the effects of the living environment, it pursues the harmonious development between shoe cabinet and home design, designs the appearance and function of shoe cabinet, and attempts to satisfy the daily needs of shoes storage and maintenance through the shoe cabinet with variable space.