Summer Kitchen in progress
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Inspired by multi-functional annexes in the post-Ottoman tradition of rural Romania, Atelier Ad Hoc designed a building that is part of a core infrastructure for the Station. Part kitchen, part storage-space, including functions such as pergola for climbing plants and time indicator through an incorporated sundial, the construction is complementary to a series of eco-prototypes that serve each other to represent both tools of conviviality and ways of coexisting with the environment in a less damaging way. Thus, the kitchen will provide the space and storage for preparing food, which is to be cooked using the oven Demeter, built in 2023 from recycled bricks and clay from the area by poet V. Leac, and also the space for washing the dishes, with the grey water circulated through a phytoremediation system designed by atelier d'architecture autogérée and implemented at the Station in 2023-2024.
With the collaboration of Andrei Savonea, the kitchen structure installed this summer will receive its inside shells and outside walls this November.
If you are an architecture or design student, a carpenter, or simply someone who dreamt about assembling a kitchen without IKEA type of instructions, you are welcome to join one of the sessions in which we bring this structure closer to its final shape.
To find out when and how you can participate, send an email to raluca.voinea@tranzit.org.
Atelier Ad Hoc is a Bucharest-based architecture practice focused on the relation between public space, informality and living conditions manifested in different situations around the city.
Founded by Maria Daria Oancea (*1987) and George Marinescu (*1989) as a dual practice consisting of a design studio and an NGO, Atelier Ad Hoc engages with situations associated with social and spatial vulnerability. They develop support structures and spatial prototypes that extend resources available to communities, testing alternative visions for an inclusive city.
The planting workshop and the construction of the kitchen take place in the frame of the project Architecture, Biodiversity, Culture [ABC].
Architecture, Biodiversity, Culture [ABC]. Building ecological institutions for culture is an European cooperation project situated at the intersection between cultural practices, eco-architecture and ecosystems preservation. Initiated by a consortium of organisations active in the fields of culture, contemporary art, architecture, civic activism and eco-sustainable community practices, the project proposes a participatory process of building and cultural contextualising of ecological prototypes to be used by cultural institutions. ABC operates on four sites in Romania, Bulgaria and France: Silistea Snagovului, a village in the proximity of Bucharest, near a protected area of lake and forest; Brezoi, a small town in the South-Western part of Romania, in a mountaneous area and close to an important river; Dren, a village outside of Sofia, in a hilly area; and Bagneux, in the peripheral neighourhoods of Paris.
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