Developing New Recipes

Buildings.

Any concerns that the brief might prove too proscriptive were quickly dispelled when the eight teams set to work. The theme of ‘The Kitchen meets the Workplace’ had been announced in advance, and it became clear that some participants had undertaken some level of background research, particularly into the history and development of the kitchen as a coherent facility, whether in the home or elsewhere. This led to some interesting observations, and led to intriguing directions in their thinking on the day.

Ampetheatre
Ampetheatre
Ampetheatre

The practices had been invited for their experience and interest in the development of workplaces at different scales and character. All of them embraced the challenge implied in the charette to consider how the domestic kitchen – which nowadays represents much more than a place for food preparation – might inform the way workplaces are planned in the future. But the directions they took were all quite different, liberated from the constraints imposed by ‘real’ projects with clients, briefs and budgets. This took HOK, for example, to propose an app rather than an architectural solution, while Feilden Fowles looked to encourage workers away from their offices in seeking sustenance.