Open Kitchen, Public House

refiguring kitchen(s) in English pub as new space for constructing diasporic identity

Master thesis (2023)

Authors

Kevin S.F. LAI Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

Vanessa Grossman Public Building and Housing Design (mentor)
J. Gosseye Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (graduation committee member)
J.A. van de Voort Architectural Technology - Architecture and the Built Environment (graduation committee member)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment, Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright: © 2023 Kevin S.F. LAI
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Published Date

29-06-2023

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

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.