Food F o r u m.
Th e R oya l D a n i s h Aca d e my of Fi ne Ar t s. S ch o o l s o f Arch i te c tu re, D e si gn and Co nser vat i o n
N ichola s James Love - 1 6 0 1 6 9 Su per v is or : M a s as hi K a jita Spatial D es ign Perception & D etail, I BD Spr ing 2 0 1 8
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Topic: Urban food systems. The disconnection en masse from the processes embodied in what we consume.
Question: How can spatial design help facilitate food based knowledge production?
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I n t ro du c t i o n Food and the city M y ro l e a s a s pa t i a l de s i n g e r. K n o w l e dg e pro du c t i o n
Physical Actors Design aim T h e ro o f t o p T h e t h i rd f l o o r
Food Field & Clustering Material Reuse & Dfd N e s t We G ro w S pa c e 1 0 Guggenhiem Lab Slow Food Pavillion Passage 56 F o o d re s t a u r a n t Registration Engagement Te c t o n i c R e pre s e n t a t i o n L i s t o f de l i v e r a bl e s T i m e s c h e du l e
B i bl i o g r a ph y G r a ph i c e x e m pl a r s Personal Information
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In tro d u c ti o n . Throughout personal studies at KADK the relationship between people, food and space has been a pillar in projects and research. This interest has developed a bank of knowledge that both contributes to the conception, development and execution of this project, while also continuing beyond it into professional practice. Combing these, this thesis project is embedded within the triad of spatial design, knowledge production and the food movement. The chosen site is a green precinct under development in Østerbro, Copenhagen. Here the project aims to work within these themes while simultaneously resolving spatial intervention at the human scale. The outcome of this will contribute spatially and intellectually to the existing Food Field. In working with the cities relationship with food, this project will explore the idea of a food forum. Being a centre for food related knowledge production, it will facilitate appropriation by local actors and residents. Thus providing space for gatherings, lectures, meetings, classes and dissemination of ideas. Understanding cycles embodied in food discourse the lifespan and material strategy will be key drivers in the design.
Note: Above: Pro j ec t Tr ia d Dia gra m
Aligning with KADK’s commitment with the United Nation Sustainable Development Goals over the next three years, this project will contribute to three of the seventeen points. This projects ambitions regarding food related knowledge production are linked to the goals of ‘Good health and well being’, ‘Quality education’ and ‘Responsible Production and Consumption’.
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F o o d a n d th e Ci ty. Food in cities is so abundant around us that we rarely stop to consider how it got there. The effort required in this production, processing, distribution, consumption and waste management of food has become in most parts unseen and relocated to well beyond the city’s limits. In her seminal work Hungry City (2008) Carolyn Steel criticises this vast and clandestine nature of contemporary food supply within Europe. While that there has always been some divide between cities and the arable lands that feed them she outlines how exponentially large, complex and fragile the system now is. Recognising that there is no chance of returning to the historic notions of only consuming locally the book provides a foundation of knowledge for further investigation in the spatial aspects of our diet. It is a call to arms to those of us involved in the built environment to cast a fresh gaze on the metabolism of contemporary urbanity. My own research paper Food & The Supermarket Interface (2017) departed from this to investigate the disconnection created in-store between the consumer and the food system. I learnt that over 82% of Danes sources food from commercial supermarkets. Following investigation into these spaces critiqued their nature and the impressions they might depart on the shopper. The outcome was that while store environment might assist, understanding of the food system, it must also be tackled on social, political and urban fronts.
“Re localising even part of the food system is about much more than just providing food. New strategies must recognise the value of creating more jobs, providing fresh fruits and vegetable to underserved communities and reconnecting people more innovatively with their food. Cities may not need urban farms to survive, but given the social environmental and economic return that the urban food system can deliver, we should find ways of developing them.” The three week semester design project took this and the essay findings to explore urban agriculture in Nørrebro. Extensive fieldwork identified actors, resources and a potential opportunity for spatial intervention. The project then developed a proposal to rearrange these existing entities within a programme containing urban farming, outdoor class room and community kitchen. From all of this I’ve learnt how there are both rich opportunities and critical limitations in spatially working with aspects our food system. Urban farming projects are valuable and hold useful didactic potential. However their bottomup generated and DIY natured communities do not commonly call for a spatial designer in their conception. This collection of work is what forms the back ground understanding for this project to depart from. Moving past the typology of the urban farm, how can spatial design input may contribute to food related knowledge production in the city?
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My Role as a S p a ti a l De si g n e r. Motivated by tutoring at KADK and Spatial Agency’s alternative methods of practice my role has evolved to consist of actor engagement, network strategy then followed by design response. This position as a practitioner looks towards the more peripheral edges of our profession and will be refined and documented throughout the process. Making use of a situated approach will include direct contact with actors though informal interviewing and documenting. These registrations will have a primary function of developing understanding of the site and Food Field. The secondary purpose of this preengagement is to open gates and develop a personal relationship among actors. Both of these strategies have roots in personal enjoyment but also as a methodology for understanding and navigating the context I’m working in at a deeper level. Being very aware that we, as spatial designers, take the inherent risk that our ideas often do not work when implemented. It is often out of mind that additional to a proposal are the people to occupy, manage & maintain it. Or that the function & purpose of a building may not be right for that context. This process of engaging with the existing actor-networks is to avoid design occurring in a vacuum and help tailor the design response to the specifics of the site.
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Love, N (2017) Food & the Supermarket.
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The suggestion of the Anthropocene epoch in 2016 pushes for even better awareness of the consequences that our consumption has had on the planet. While also being a sobering reminder of how finite our resources actually are. With global population climbing towards (8.9-9.7) billion in 2050 (U.N Population Division, 2017) dependant of fertility rates, the United Nations Farming and Agriculture Organisation (UNFAO) predicts that an increase of 75% from todays production will be required. While the majority of this occurs in The Global South, the responsibility of G8/ Global North is to lead by example and push for better diet practice and understanding.
Kn o wl e d g e P ro d u c ti o n . Considering knowledge production’s role as a key objective of this project it is important to discuss what it might include and how is it valuable when in relation to food. For the purpose of the project knowledge production shall refer broadly to any food related advances and understanding either shared between a group or within an individual. This may refer to food literacy, organic production, food deserts, transport miles, expiration dates, embodied pollution, slow food, GMO free produce, food waste, seasonality or simply just the nutritional value of one item over another.
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It is through our knowledge that informs choices and behaviour. One whom understands the nature of different produce is more likely to make informed choices regardless of where in the food system they consume from. “We don’t smell food to see if it’s okay to eat. We just read the back of a label on a packet. And we don’t value food. We don’t trust it. So instead of trusting it, we fear it. And instead of valuing it, we throw it away” Steel, C.(2008) Hungry City
Note: S c ho o l Veg eta bl e G a rden s Fiel dwo r k in B yo a s en - N ø r rebro
This need for a better understanding of the consequences of our diet and food system is outlined by Dutch philosopher and governmental policy adviser Huub Dijstelbloem. In his essay Food, a Compromised Issue (2102). Here he suggests that Latour’s paradigm of complex networks as ‘black boxes’ is parallel to our contemporary food system. Where vital dependencies, intermediate steps and cohesion between actors are then eliminated or effaced by the end of the chain. N ic h o las Jam e s Love - 2 0 1 8
Thus resulting in in a ‘Black Box’ effect that conceals origins and processes. Dijstelbloem insists that while some have already started we must en masse continue to deconstruct the black box. To establish better transparency and disclosure between companies and customers and leading to more sustainable food habits. As Jonathan Latham, (PhD) for Independent science (2016) writes “those who enter the orbit of the food movement are likely to move deeper into it. Someone who begins by buying free range eggs, perhaps for reasons of ethics, moves on to keeping chickens and perhaps to sourcing other meats more ethically or more locally. People attracted to flavourful meat or produce are likely to expand their interests into animal welfare or become locavores“ It is necessary to acknowledge that this kind of intellectual development is not something that can be solely gained from the design of space. Hence it is the aim of Food From from the outset to design for the nurturing of knowledge. It is by generating space for the sharing of work by thinkers, organisations and regular citizens alike that will push the envelope of food knowledge within Copenhagen.
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S i te . The project site is located at Sankt Kjelds Plans 12, Østerbro. Currently on the site exists a modern three story office building. The project will develop a strategy of adaptive re-use for the third floor and rooftop. The plot itself is located on the northern boundary of Sankt Kjelds plads in Østerbro. Here Beløgde, Bryggervangen, Sejrøgade, Nygårdsvej & Sankt Kjelds gade meet to from a grand scale roundabout. (The area is largely car centric with wide streets, two way traffic and amble parking) The building has a considerable solar aspect due negligible overshadowing from the south. Since 2012 the domain has been the subject to extensive urban analysis and remodelling in a push to align it with predicted climatic challenges of the future.
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Works are currently underway to transform Sankt Kjelds Plads into the green/blue heart of the Climate-Resilient Neighbourhood. The project is to be an exemplar for how to form climate adapted urban spaces throughout the rest of Copenhagen. SLA Landskabsarkitekter, the consultancy Alectia and the engineer Jens Rørbech have collaborated to develop the master plan shown on the following page. What this means for this project is that the area will be studied as a state-of-the-art in itself. The culmination of this public space development as well as the proximity to similar actors sets an rich foundation for my spatial intervention. My aim is to capitalise on this and contribute to the Food Field here so that it may be studied and potentially implemented elsewhere in Copenhagen. Pa g e 2 0
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Mayor for Technical and Environmental Affairs, Morten Kabell (2015)
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“The whole of Copenhagen has to find answers to the challenges we face here in Østerbro. An ambitious climate adaptation plan has therefore been developed that will be implemented over the next twenty years. The Climate-Resilient Neighbourhood is the demonstration project, which is to inspire the rest of the city to think green”
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Actors.
Found within the immediate area are a complimentary set of actors that all contributing the the Food Field. Those presented here are ones that I plan on continuing working with directly.
Trine Hahnneman’s Køkken.
Sustainable and Organic cooking school and food boutique. Sankt Kjelds Plans 12, Ground floor. København Ø
As chef and food writer, The two pillars of Trine Hahnneman’s work are sustainable solutions, organic sourcing. All with a with a focus on Scandinavian recipes and produce. Since the early 90’s Trine has actively worked to improve the status quo of canteen food in workplaces around Copenhagen and provides roughly 3000 meals daily. She’s spoken are cooked on TED and at the Nordic Council of Ministers. The new tenancy at Sankt Kjelds Plads has been the dream project for a number of years and will host classes, events as well as serve food & coffee daily. I’ve been fortunate to meet Trine and her PA Katherin Kuna numerous times while developing the back ground for this project.
Østergro.
Rooftop Urban Farm. Æbeløgade 4, København Ø Østergro is an urban farm established in 2014 on the roof of an abandoned car sales building. It is now a successful organisation managed by 40 members. Produce is sold at outlets locally and while the yields are small the organisation understands the value of their position in Copenhagen. “The vision behind ØsterGRO is not that cities in the future should be self-sufficient with food grown on the roofs - but to create a link between country and city. Urbanisation has contributed to the loss of basic knowledge about how our food is grown and produced.” oestergro.dk (2014) This vision of Østergro along with pre existing base of members is an aspect I want to harness. Considering the close proximity of the farm to the rooftop of the site as well as both spaces existing at the same datum makes for an interesting potential for a physical connection.
Miljøpunkt Østerbro.
Environmental Centre. Masnedøgade 20, 2100 Copenhagen Ø
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The Østerbro branch of Miljopunkt is organisation that works to promote environmental considerations and sustainable development throughout the kommune. The core agenda of the organisation is to support and develop situated environmental work by inspiring and engaging citizens and businesses into sustainable habits. The target group is citizens, associations, companies and institutions who would like to do something extra to promote a healthy environment on Østerbro. Continuing on the relationship built with Miljøpunkt in semester one I have been in contact with Sara from the team and am planning to meet during the pre-design phase N ic h o las Jam e s Love - 2 0 1 8
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P ro j e c t A i m . What is Food Forum and what should it do? Put simply, the intended outcome for this scheme is a place for people to gather around food. It might involve cooking, lectures, events, group or individual projects, with the immaterial byproduct being knowledge production. To facilitate this, Food Forum will plug into the existing fabric and open links with complimentary actors. It is important to note that is not a project intending to design a food community, rather nurture an existing one. To support these various modes of gathering, it is important that spatially the project allows for appropriation and flexibility in use. The site having both an interior and a rooftop presents a great spatial dichotomy to work with. The relationship between the two levels, their exposure to natural elements, connections between occupants and public access and are all to be explored. Alongside this are the considerations of vertical access and connection to the ground plane. At a material tectonic level I am continuing working with strategies of material reuse from earlier semester (elaborated on on page 44).
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P o te n ti a l . Rooftop. Outdoor terrace, garden beds, outdoor kitchen, dinning space, outdoor theatre, public access, summer orientated, potential pedestrian link to Ă˜stergro building, vertical access to street. Third floor: Communal food preparation, formal lecture theatre, informal presentation space, nooks for privacy, meeting spaces, event space, study space, access to the rooftop, access to street. Note: S a nk t K j el d s Pl a ds 12 H y p o thet ic a l s k etc h o f ro o f to p
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04 T h e o re ti c a l F r a m e wo r k .
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The theoretical framework of the project is positioned at two scales. At a macro scale the concepts of the Food Field and Clustering are proposed as a way of understanding the role of the building in relation to it’s urban context. The micro scale will use concepts of material re-use/ designing for deconstruction to inform design and tectonic decisions.
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T h e F o o d F i e l d & Cl u ste r i n g . At the macro scale exists the terms of Food Field & Clustering. Whle the term ‘Food Field’ has already been used in this programme. It’s menaing wil be refined by elaborating further. The Amsterdam think tank CITIES in defined the term Food Field in their book Farming the city, Food as a tool for todays urbanisation (2016). They outline it as the multitude of food related business, local economies and communities working cooperatively while using food as a driver to develop space and relationships in the city. While Clustering is the smaller conglomerates of these that share close spatial proximity. In short, Clusters form the constituent subdivisions of a Field. CITIES refer to how Clustering can be especially successful when it is rooted in local economic, cultural and institutional assets. A successful Cluster cannot be created out of nothing but rather must support, foster and connect existing local traits and qualities. Miazzo, F. Et Al. (2013)
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Though not directly a theory for developing design it outlines what the project aims to tap into / facilitate and design can be derived from this. As the project’s aim is to contribute to the Copenhagen Food Field by uniting (or Clustering) existing actors in the Sankt Kjelds area, the spatial arrangements within Food Forum must allow for this. Hence by creating the right nature of cooperative/gathering spaces for actors aims to indirectly foster the development of the Sankt Kjelds Cluster. This analogy might also be translated to the interpersonal relations within the building itself. Where having similar actors under the one roof can cultivate the dissemination of food knowledge.
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M a te r i a l re u se At a micro scale the project will focus on material strategies including re-use and designing for deconstruction. These cyclical processes of material re-adaption have been a sub thread to food in two other KADK projects as well as being a key driver in my experience at Six Degrees Architects in Melbourne. Considering the dominantly a practical application, this section will look into tangible examples and technical guides for outlining the projects tectonic framework.
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In their two year research project Vandkunsten architects worked to prototype new component systems from discarded construction material. Twenty details where built as full scale tests using material sourced from both construction sites around Copenhagen and Genbrug, a used material depot in Amager. The results developed consisted of various sub structural claddings and partition elements. The work was then published independently by the practice in the report Rebeauty (2017)
This report pitches the notion the triple capital within material being the economic value, cultural value and embodied energy it contains. The challenge for designers is to find ways to redirect this stored value and implement the circular economy in construction. Throughout the entire stage of this project I will be on the look out for material that can be prototyped and re purposed to best harness the different threads of value. It is predicted that this found material will show signs of weathering, age, and slight cosmetic or structural failure. Because of this they too will make up the tactile/ surface aspects of the project such as claddings, partitions, fixings & furniture. The secondary reason of this is to present them within the human scale and make the cyclical nature of re-appropriation evident to occupants.
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In semester one, we produced a storage bench entirely out of timber sourced from an apartment renovation. The material required substantial preparation before it was workable however the time embodied in allowed energy & financial savings. AA
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1/ reversible fixations. (mechanical)
enable disassembly without damaging components.
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of building parts, components members and constituents. This generally disqualified composite, glued, cast or other chemical connections.
3/ Hierarchical assembly
according to component lifetime. Enables minimum interference in components with longer lifetime when exchanging others.
4/ accessibility to fixations. Enables disassembly without damaging components.
5/parallel assembly. Enables local exchange of single components.
6/ manageable size and weight of
components. To enable changes and disassembly without crane lifts.
7/High generality of components.
(modularity, homogeneousness and uniformity) to increase usability.
8/ minimum mechanical
degradation. Such as cutting, carving and penetration. To minimise mate and increase component usability.
9/ orthogonal geometries. As opposed to
skewed or curved. To minimise waste and increase possibility of component reuse.
10/minimum number of
component types and parts . To ease process of disassembly and resource mining.
Note: Gu idel ines fo r D fd co n s tr uc tio n . Va ndk u nsten Arc h itec ts (2016)
De si g n fo r De c o n str u c ti o n ( Dfd ) Construction Diagram. CONSTRUC TION DRAWINGS.
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DfD is the design of buildings that allows for future change, ease of repair and eventual deconstruction. The process aims at detailing assemblies, components, materials and construction techniques that all facilitate their own recovery or repurposing. This reuse of materials is intended to capitalise on economic value and minimise environmental impacts through subsequent reuse, repair, remanufacture and recycling. Guy, B. Et al. (2006)
building components should be assembled hierarchically according to their projected lifetime. The longest lasting components behind the component layers with a shorter lifetime.
Vandkunsten see Dfd both as a technical discipline and a design strategy. In their publication Rebeauty they use previous experience to propose technical guidelines that assist with successful Dfd schemes. The design of Food Forum at a material level will refer to these to help develop de-constructible tectonic solutions where needed.
Shown above is a diagram of my semsster three copy assignment, A 1:10 model that could be completely assembled and dissasembled without glue or fixings.
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Drawn from the publication Re-beauty are ten technical guidelines to refer for when designing for disassembly. While individually they are simple, meeting all guide in the entirety of a building system is going to require very focused detail resolution.
// In regards to the projects design process, the theory presented will occur in sequence. Firstly the spatial brief will be developed and refined in relation for the Sankt Kjleds Cluster. Following this material re-use and Did strategies will define the tectonic response to this brief. Beyond this theoretical framework, it will be valuable to look at state-of-the-art examples that also explore the relationship between food and space. Pa g e 5 0
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B M W G u g g e n h i e m Lab . At e l i e r B o w - Wo w. Ne w York(2011), B erlin (2012) & Mumb ai (201 3)
The BMW Guggenheim labs were an urban experiment combination of think tank, community centre and public forum. They offered free events to discuss the challenges faces by todays cities, generated new ideas and discourse. Following time in New York Lab the lab was moved to Berlin, then translated into a vernacular counterpart for the time in Mumbai. It is the testing of the public forum typology and it’s deconstruction that are directly applicable to this project. There is the potential for the rooftop at Sankt Kjelds plans to host its own version of this concept. A critical acknowledgement however is the absence of funding injected into the lab by the Solomon Guggenheim foundation and BMW automotive.
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P a ssa g e 56.
A t e l i e r D ’A r c h i t e c t u r e A u t o g é r é e , Paris, 2006
Passage 56 explored the potential of a left over urban void adapted into a collectively managed urban garden. Conceived in 2006 in St. Blaise auburn of eastern Paris the project formed partnerships between local government, local organisations, residents of the area and a professional association which run training programmes in eco-construction. Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée ran the project as a critiquing to planning policy regarding the subversion and use of left over ban space for communal programmes. It successfully showed that the client does not need to be the catalyst for a project but can in fact emerge from the users. The project generated rich social capital via the social and cultural networks between actors involved. It is due to this that I look to it as a best case example of community generation.
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F o o d R e sta u r a n t.
G ordon Matt a C l arke & C arol G o o dden and Tina Giroux. S o h o , N e w Yo r k 1 9 7 1 - 1 9 7 3
The restaurant is a reference of social gathering and community that hinges on the cooking and sharing of food. The place was a social and culinary hub, where a mainly creative crowd would meet, discuss projects, employment and diet. Spatially there was never any wall between the kitchen and dining room and the preparation of meals was considered theatre for occupants. The restaurant’s founding was part of a culinary revolution that centred upon fresh, locally grown and organic food - all through the open format kitchen.At the time it was revolutionary. This arrangement took decades to enter mainstream western hospitality design and is still a relevant driver to this day.
Note: FO O D S o ho, N ew Yo r k (1971)
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Ne st We G ro w.
C ol lege of Env ironment a l D esig n UC B erkele y + Kengo Kuma & Ass o ci ates. 2015.
The project was selected a a precedent due to the manner that it’s programme is defined by the seasonal cycle of growing produce. The pavilion seems more of a speculative work than something with pragmatic daily function. In the context of Østerbro is not realistically applicable however inspiration can be drawn from the function and arrangement of the spaces shown in section. “The program of the Nest is decided according to the life cycle of these local foods: growing, harvesting, storing, cooking/dining, and composting, which restarts the cycle. All members of the community help to complete each stage, allowing the structure to become a platform for group learning and gathering activities in the Nest throughout the year. Community participation extends and completes the life cycle of local foods, which is a symbiotic relationship. This is the time-line of people and food in the Nest, and this is the Nest for people and food.” College of Environmental Design UC Berkeley + Kengo Kuma Associates
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Slow Food Pavillion.
Herzog & D e Meuron- Mi l an 2015.
‘The pavilion should allow the visitors to discover the significance of agricultural and food biodiversity, to explore the variety of the products that are protagonists of biodiversity, and to become aware of the need of adopting new consumption habits.’ Herzog & De Meuron (2015)
Within the pavilion attendees are exposed to visual statements as well as selection of keys texts that present different consumptions habits and the consequences they have on the planet. I see this approach to knowledge production is immediate and literal. Thus being largely different to what I intend in food forum. however this nature can be understood considering the more fleeting Expo-style interaction with the building. Tectonically the use of all timber framing is designed for deconstruction and to be used in the Slow Food’s other locations around Italy once Expo closes, making it a point of reference for my tectonic strategy.
Note: S l ow Fo o d Pav il io n - M il a n H er zo g & D e M euro n (2015)
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S p a c e 10.
Sp acon & X - C op en hagen 2015.
Space 10 is an urban living lab funded by commercial partner IKEA and designer by Østerbro practice Spacon & X. It serves as a creative forum, research hub, workshop and event space for topics such as urbanisation, food security and health and wellness. The space holds a full program of public events that align with these topics and push for more sustainable mode of living. While lessons can be drawn from its open plan and collaborative spaces, the success of Space 10 is largely dependants on the managerial work done by Rebel Agency. In light of this, I’m aware Food Forum would benefit from it’s own hypothetical organisational team.
Note: S p a ce 1 0 - Co pen h a gen S p a co n & X ( 2015)
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M e th o d . Listed here are a selection of methods for registration, design and representation that I have been working with while at KADK. With this project being the culmination of our learning they will be implemented but continuously refined throughout.
Registration
Engagement
The form of micro/macro mapping will be used for registering existing Sankt Kjelds Plads conditions, stakeholders and the space they occupy at an urban scale. While also documenting the fine grained specifics of such places at the micro scale. This is done via a sequence of process led discovery developed in semester one where as new spaces, people or organisation are uncovered they are added to the drawing. As well as the physical built environment I will include network information regarding the links between different actors. The strength of this drawing will be in the amount of information and detail it is able to communicate.
As elaborated earlier my role as a spatial designer situated engagement will be used as a method to critique and refine my own brief. Not to be confused as a participatory design, it will involve primary and secondary interviews, brainstorming and collaboration with the actors of the Sankt Kjelds Food Field. The findings from this will then be taken into account and put in consideration with my own view for the projects direction.
Finding and Archiving
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Notice Board.
Actor Responsibility.
The extents of the pinboard has been extended and is used heavily for community notices. The drop down shelf has been less successful though.
Since completion of the work users of the pavillion have cleaned, re-organised and labelled all of the kitchen’s utensils.
Adaptation.
Repostioning tables.
The six main tables have been relocated by actors to be closer to the work surface opening.
Tectonic.
Representation.
There will be two parts in approaching material re-use. Material procurement followed by a design that refers to Dfd principles. Firstly will involve visits to Genbrug to view what is available in their store as well as ‘chance’ investigations of construction sites in the local area. Mark Healy of Six Degrees Architects proclaims that form follows found object so actively mining for material will allow broader possibilities. The design stage will be largely dependant on what is found.
Here the project will work with the section as the main representational technique. The aim of these drawings is to depict the proposed project while also projecting the human appropriations that occur over through use. In his essay The Behaviours that Atelier Bow-Wow call research, Yoshikazu Nango uses Lefebvre’s spatial theory to describe how the space of representation and the space off occupation are super imposed on the one drawing.
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Hence, the perspective section is valuable displaying the interconnected activities that are occurring in space. How people are using the building and how the building facilities use. It depicts spatial arrangement, user tasks, tectonic detailing and materiality simultaneously by giving the observer a viewpoint that is entirely fictional.
Forming ownership.
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Bench Seat.
Skirting Board.
Cooking Equiptment.
The bench makes use of the southern solar aspect and provides a spot to dwell that is sepperated from the boardroom style main tables.
Reclaimed kitchen cupboards were cut down and painted to use as a skirting board infill for where the raised step was removed.
Being able to cook / re-heat food contributes to the useibility of the kitchen.
Informal sitting.
Re-used cupboard doors.
Graphic Anatomy
provided by Områdefernulserne.
This form of drawing is a representation method that has been continuously developed since semester one and will be used to communicate the diverse functions and happenings that are to occur in Food Forum.
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S c h e m a ti c d e l i v e r a b l e s l i st. /Context scale
Axonometric network drawing Registration sketches Historical background.
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Perspective sections of building Profiles of relevant actors Documentation of stakeholder engagement Analysis sketches
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Programme Context. Registration Mapping of area
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Critique.
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Critique.
Historical research
Site Engagement with actors Perspective sections ProďŹ les of actors Building. Schematic design Design Development Documentation Architectural drawings
Material. Material procurement research Collecting material Material prototypes.
Presentation. Drawings Plan presentation
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B i b l i o g r a p h y. /Books Awan, N. Schneider, T & Till, J. (2013) Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture. Routledge. Lim, C (2014) Food City. Routledge. Latour, B. (2005) Reassembling the social: An introduction to actor-network-theory. Oxford University Press. Miazzo, F. Minkjan, M. (2013) Farming the City, Food as a Tool for Todays Urbanisation. Trancity*Valiz Steel, C. (2008) Hungry City, How Food Shapes Our Lives. London : Random House. Kaijima, M. Tsukamoto, Y.(2014) Graphic Anatomy 2. Masaru Ode. Kaijima, M. Tsukamoto, Y. (2010) Behaviourology. Masaru Ode. Vandkunsten Architect (2017) Rebeauty, Nordic Built Component Re-use. Knudzton Graphic.
/Articles Dijstelbloem, H. (2012). Food, A Compromised Issue. In Van Der Sande, Et Al. (Eds.), Food For The City (Vol. 1, pp. 58-63) Stroom Den Haag and Nai Publishers.
/Web Guy, B. Ciarimboli, N.(2006) Design for Disassembly in the Built Environment: DfD a guide to closed-loop design and building, City of Seattle. Latham, J.Phd (2016) Why the food movement is unstoppable. Retrieved from (https://www.independentsciencenews.org/ health/why-the-food-movement-is-unstoppable/) United Nations DESA, Population Division. (2017). World Population Prospects: The 2017 Revision. Retrieved from: https://www.un.org/development/desa/publications/world-population-prospects-the-2017-revision.html.
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Roof.
Continuos Plane.
Structure. Timber Framing.
Ea rth wo rks
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Ground. Earth Tectonics.
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Gra phic E xempl a r
Grap h ic E xe m p lar
Theis Pro j ec t - Ar n a ud Jo ua n c h ico t (2016)
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09 In fo r m a ti o n . Nicholas James Love 5th Janurary 1992 /Education The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture and Design Spatial Design Perception & Detail MA Architecture 2016 - 2018
University of Melbourne - Melbourne School of Design B.Arch of Environments - Major Architecture 2011-2014
/Work experience Six Degrees Architects, Melbourne Architectural Assistant 2014 - 2016
Freelance Projects In collaboration with James Oberin. 2015 - 2016
Mills & Groman Architects Architectural Assistant. 2014
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Th e R oya l D a n i s h Aca d e my of Fi ne Ar t s. S ch o o l s o f Arch i te c tu re, D e si gn and Co nser vat i o n
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