CONTENTS

THE KITCHEN SINK AND EVERYTHING

GHOST KITCHEN HUB,

CHILDREN’S

RECONFIGURING SCHOOLS IN

ORDERLY PAVILION,

BOAT HOUSE,

BLURRED BOUNDARIES

ELEPHANT INTERPRETATION

The Kitchen Sink And Everything Else

GHOST KITCHEN HUB, PROVIDENCE

RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN | ADVANCE ARCHITECTURE STUDIO

STUDIO INSTRUCTOR: ANA GABRIELA

IN COLLABORATION WITH: DAVID SWAN

Slab As A Machine

The Ghost kitchen is an exploration on how to design kitchens for adaptability. We used artificial intelligence as a generative tool to imagine how the built environment can respond to the inhabitants’ changing functional requirements. This gives autonomy to the user, allowing them to have meaningful participation in the design of their built environment.

The difficulty in flexible kitchens is the typology’s dependency on services, we tackled this by envisioning the Slab as machines takes physical form in a plug-and-play strategy, where kitchen components are inserted and/or withdrawn from the slab, following vendors’ production and equipment needs. The slab, however, is not a standardized element, but it is the result of a negotiation between functional needs of regularity, chef and visitors promenade, and the fluid insertion of outdoor space into the indoor space.

KITCHEN COMPONENTS ARE INSERTED AND/OR WITHDRAWN FROM THE SLAB “NODES” TO AUGMENT THE ADAPTABILITY OF SPATIAL CONFIGURATIONS

DATASET CREATIONS - DESIGNER INPUT

STYLEGAN2 - AI TRAINING

TRANSLATION OF AI OUTPUTS INTO FUNCTIONAL SPACES

SLAB NODES ALLOW SPACE TO ADAPT TO DIFFERENT FUNCTIONAL TYPOLOGIES

PROGRAM DISTRIBUTION GUIDEDED BY SLAB MANIPULATIONS

SECTIONAL CUT THROUGH THE SLAB MANIPULATIONS