Design system for aiding the design of a kitchen refurbishment

A design system for aiding the design of a kitchen (40) refurbishment and comprising:

• a plurality of objects to represent, under a reduced size, a plurality of refurbishment elements of said kitchen, said objects all being of one and the same reduced scale in relation to the refurbishment elements;
• a support comprising a surface of which at least one portion is able to support said objects;
• a means for determining position,
• said objects and said means for determining position being configured such that the latter is able to determine a position for each one of the objects placed on said portion;
• a conversion means to convert an item of position information of the objects placed on said portion into an item of position information in said kitchen of the refurbishment elements represented by said objects;
• a refurbishment determination means to determine a project for refurbishing said kitchen on the basis of position information of the refurbishment elements in said kitchen obtained by said conversion means and on the basis of at least one technical constraint of a kitchen refurbishment;
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• a means of output to provide information about the project for refurbishing said kitchen determined by said refurbishment determination means.