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12 Structural Design for Public Kitchen
Experiement | Learning By Making | Degree | Semester 5 | UTAS University
Public Kitchen: Itera�on #5 is a collab-
ora�on between MONA’s 12 Carrot
Gardens project and designers/ac�v-
ists from the Design Studio for Social
Interven�on (DS4SI, Boston). The
three studio leads from DS4SI will
conduct a Public Kitchen project on an
empty lot in a Cul de Sac in Bridgewa-
ter (a Hobart fringe suburb), in collab-
ora�on with local community groups
053 and residents; working from March
20-30 and culmina�ng in public
events March 28 - 30.
The design brief for this task is to
collec�vely design and construct a
shelter for the MONA Public Kitchen
event that will take place in Bridgewa-
ter in March 2018. The MONA team
have designed a 12m living table of
mosses and other biodegradable
materials that will be posi�oned
beneath the shelter.
The shelter is to be conceived of as an
‘organism’ to complement the table
as a living surface. It is to be sustain-
able and reusable in the future. There
are two aspects to consider in rela�on
to the living organism - the biomimet-
ic aspect and the social aspect.
Both of these offer different ways
of thinking about heritage. In this
context, heritage is conceived of
as not just pertaining to the past,
but as something that is dynamic,
alive and includes both built and
social fabric. The shelter as
‘organism’ also provides the
opportunity to cri�que sustain-
ability in a similar manner. To
‘sustain’ suggests an ongoing
poten�al for agency and resil-
ience, where the past con�nues
to exist.
The design is to demonstrate sim-
plicity of construc�on, repeatabil-
ity of elements, and a limited and
restrained pale�e of materials
and colours. The completed shel-
ter is to provide shade and offer
protec�on from the rain. It does
not however need to be a
herme�cally sealed environment.