A culinary Institute located in Frick Park, Pittsburgh focused on community interaction and connecting the Squirrel Hill urban fabric to the nature of Frick Park; designed in collaboration with Shreeja Harisrikanth.
(2022)
Render Collage of Street View (top), Trail View (middle), and Park View (bottom)
The Blooming Kitchen encompasses a restaurant and culinary institution that attempts to merge itself with Squirrel Hill and Frick Park. The building opens itself up to the community and allows for transparency between the public and culinary classes. The teaching kitchen is centralized and located next to the restaurant and outdoor teaching kitchen to give the community easy access to view into the teaching kitchen. These spaces can also be joined together for community events.
The building form rotates around the central node of circulation that ties the separate floors together. The heavy timber post and beam structure system supports a very transparent facade system and green roofs that join the Blooming Kitchen with the surrounding hill side. The roofs also peel upwards towards their southernmost corner to provide sunlight to interior spaces.
Exploded Axonometric (left) and Building Plans (right)
Massing Morphology
Long Section (top) and Short Section (bottom)
Massing Model in Site
Section Model through Restaurant (left) and Teaching Kitchen (middle)
