Gallery Display

Midterm

The Culinary Arts School is focused on bridging the common gap experienced by culinary artists and the public. This space is experienced as hunger. For the student it is a desire to express creativity and thought and to translate it to others through food. For the consumer, it is the desire to experience that food. Food becomes the bridging element between two. The design of the school captures focuses on this dynamic as the hunger manifests itself as a large and open lobby where circulation meets and crosses to weave together program. Slices of program are revealed through cuts in enclosure, small moments to whet the appetite. While the lobby becomes a mixing pot of ingredients, the circulation volume becomes the knife that divides more private program elements from the public spaces. As you ascend the stair, slices of program continue to be revealed, bits of ingredients that get left behind on the blade. This slicing strategy carries on to the East façade where the large spaces are stacked to reveal the program of the school where knowledge is explained at the top floor and comes down to the second in practice within the teaching kitchens before it is finally presented to the public on the bottom floor.

Criticisms:
Reconsider the circulation to run north-south instead of parallel to the preexisting alley way. Design the outdoor space outside of the entrance. Try not to lose the ephemeral quality of the lobby present in the renders.

Next steps:
Return to the early diagrams of the layout in plan. Many of the qualities in circulation and the lobby are lost in the most recent iteration of the design. Continue to develop a structure that is not confined to a domestic scale. Develop enclosure.