Hongik University’s Public Design Research Center has released a new design manual for “Separate Smoking Rooms”. Which separates regular cigarettes from vapes and aims to improve the effectiveness of smoking rooms.
Divided smoking room “new design
On June 28. N.News reported that the Public Design Research Center at Hongik University in South Korea released a new design manual for “Separate Smoking Rooms,” aiming to respond to the public’s complaints about secondhand smoking to improve its social effectiveness.
The Public Design Research Center at Hongik University recently announced that they have completed the development of “Separate Smoking Rooms” as a social conflict resolution design project.
Since 2012, society has been shifting towards a “no smoking as a benchmark” trend. Conflicts between smokers and non-smokers are frequent on the streets of many major cities. While those who smoke in no-smoking areas are excluded. The problems caused by smoking in non-no-smoking areas. Second-hand smoke in public places and even in shared housing is also a frequent source of conflict.
These conflicts sometimes even intensify into vicious incidents, putting pressure on local governments to handle smoking complaints.
According to the Public Design Research Center at Hony University. Lee Hyun-seong’s newly released public design manual for smoking rooms focuses on enhancing the communal nature of smoking rooms in existing and chaotic public places.
The biggest difference between the newly designed smoking rooms and. The existing ones are that they are divided into regular and vape zones in the smoking area to enhance. The effectiveness of the smoking rooms. This is because, of the diversification of smoking styles. Many people who use vape are reluctant to use the smoking rooms because of the smoke odor issue.
In addition, since November 2022. The Sungdong-gu government in Korea has adopted the “Smart Smoking Room” for the first time and plans to use this type of separated smoking room for future expansion and installation programs.
