Scattered Domesticity

London, United Kingdom

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Scattered Domesticity

London, United Kingdom

Firm

Petr Esposito

Type

Commercial › Pop-Up

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2015

SIZE

0 sqft - 1000 sqft

BUDGET

$0 - 10K

The Pop-Up Kitchen is one of a series of projects that seek to create a houseless architecture, designed to better the environment of those living without permanent housing in the city of London.

It is deigned in response to both architectural and physiological impacts of homelessness with an analysis of existing architectural and charitable interventions as a driver to develop a brief answering the key question.

“How can architecture provide to better the lives of peoples suffering either temporary or chronic homelessness?”

The Scattered Domesticity address a key failure in current design proposals as delivered by charities who develop ‘post-homelessness’ spaces; attempting to relive people from the condition, and designers and architects who tend to create distributed architectures aimed at resolving ‘shelterlessness’.

Much of the hardship and continual contradiction in the existence of a homeless individual; the need for love and affection but the inability to connect fully with another human being, the desire for shelter and structure, yet an inability to behave consistently as required by homeless charities leaves a constant need to generate an architecture where it no longer seeks to remove people off the street but to create better standards of living for those that continue to live rough. Furthermore distributed items that provide for those without shelter do not address any further issues within homelessness suggesting a new architectural intervention that improves the full spectrum of homelessness and not just sleeping conditions.

The pop-up kitchen provides a shared space for the community that provides free food and beverage for those in need, as well as a commercial side where coffee and sandwiches can be sold to support the scheme. The idea is to provide generous seating spaces that encourage interaction and a sense of community where both the houseless and housed groups can, eat, talk, draw, laugh, and cry together in a safe and playful environment.

The pop-up kitchen plans to move across the city in the coming months and become an extension of the already existing scattered home of the houseless population.