P3X2 Program Description

Food Bank + Refuge

1.     Dining area / 30% /  30,000 sf / 9144 sm

2.     Learning Kitchen / 10% /  10,000 sf / 3048 sm

3.     Food Bank / 7.5% / 7,500 sf / 2286 sm

4.     Chapels / 2.5% / 2,500 sf / 762 sm

5.     Temporary Refuge / 10%/ 10,000 sf / 3048 sm

6.     Staff Housing / 7.5% / 7,500 sf / 2286 sm

7.     Residencies / 32.5% / 32500 sf / 9906 sm
The intent of this program is accessible refuge. It offers cheap eats and cheap beds. This program provides for a large gathering space of younger crowds as well as pensioners, low-income families and even the destitute. The food bank provides opportunities for this group to earn money from working in the kitchen or learn a thing or two about cooking and catering in large quantities. The large dining area and food bank become an extension of the park, delivering this public space to the street. The kitchen is located at the floor level to maximize it’s accessibility from the street – as an outlet for excess food supplies, ease of access is a must in order to ensure participation from local vendors. 

Morphologically speaking, this project proposes a displacement of the ground-plane to investigate the phenomenological values of above-grade versus below-grade spaces. The program splinters, creating various conditions of oblique and asymmetrical space.