Project Overview
The brief required that my chosen building must contain accommodation for 10, a shop, a restaurant, a teaching kitchen, library/workspace, and student kitchens that could accommodate 30 people. I decided to draw upon my African upbringing and based my project on a fictional South African chef.
Existing Building
The building I chose is in Dublin’s city centre. It is currently a gourmet food store cum restaurant and made for a great precedence study. The building was previously a telephone exchange but had become vacant. I met with the shop owners to see how they worked around the steel structure needed for the telephone exchange.
