Portfolio 2025 - Flipbook - Page 19
This project introduces a new grain of reliable food source that allows the community to repay agriculture. Historically, living and farming were intertwined because there were no effective transportation
or refrigeration systems. Thus both had to be close to one another. Therefore, every ancient community had a congested region with a food distribution facility in the middle and agriculture all around.
The proposed cafe allows the exploration of Food; Food has the power to bring together people
from many walks of life. Food conveys information about a person’s identity and origins. It crosses borders, time zones, and generations. Even the smell of Food can transport us to a distant
land or our early years. By learning more about different countries’ cuisines, we can better understand our past, geography, climate, economy, and other characteristics that make each nation or
place distinctive. In addition, cultural barriers can be more easily bridged when meals are shared.
In the project above, lightweight wood construction contrasts with its heavy primary concrete
structure.
It is ideally organized through the building’s floor, ceiling, walls, roof, and custom furniture to implement a grid perspective, as the plans suggest. The grid strategy is apparent in the
floor plans and the simple forms the wall embodies in the section. Furthermore, the flat roof that
hovers over the interior and exteriors of the building emphasizes its downward, horizontal adjustment. Notably, the perceived atmospheric experience has been achieved through a mixture of outside glass walls that provide a glimpse into the building—forming the materiality of the inner space
to give the building the desired tree-like structural support while creating an element of privacy
through the separation of the grid-based spaces. Overall, the floor, walls, ceilings, and custom furniture emphasize the grid institution of the design that delivers a notion of functions within its areas.
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