Open Kitchen, Public House
refiguring kitchen(s) in English pub as new space for constructing diasporic identity
Kevin S.F. Lai (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
Vanessa Grossman – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
Janina Gosseye – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
Jan van de Voort – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
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Abstract
This thesis project studies the possibilities of designing a new space for migrants to construct their diasporic identity in a post-colonial language. The thesis is situated in the context of the mass migration from Hong Kong from 2019, specifically looking at Reading in the UK as a key arrival location. The thesis explores the design hypothesis of the alimentary-spatio-identity triangle and proposes an "open kitchen" based on intervening into an abandoned English pub in Reading to afford a new space for strange encounters for the HK migrants to construct their new belonging.