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Name
Gianmarco Tolone
Title
Commensality Social Infrastructure
Chair(s)
Affective Architectures
Supervision
An Fonteyne
Semester
FS22
Even though the industrial landscape of Oerlikon has been almost entirely wiped away, the new large-scale city district we find in Neu Oerlikon today still bears the rationality of the factories it has replaced. This master thesis argues that the way food is provided within the district is yet another illustration of this ‘factory-like’ characteristic. Food franchises, canteens and supermarkets are geared towards quick & efficient bites, located inside building plots that hardly interact with each other and their surroundings. The master thesis proposes to reuse the existing kitchen at the MFO-site to design an integrated and open infrastructure for commensality — when sharing food becomes a social act — and as such use food as a catalyst to develop a currently much-lacking social infrastructure in Neu Oerlikon. By centralising and integrating different functions around food on one highly accessible site, new business models and alliances can emerge, while setting the foundation for the gradual growth of an actual neighbourhood.
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