Community Kitchen in Refugee’s Facility in Gabčiko

The goal of this structure was to design and build a small pavilion that can focus on the social and cultural act of cooking and eating together. This helps to establish practice that can anchor the refugees to a new place, and eventually build a neighborhood and to offer spatial gestures that support the family activities and nurtures the local community. It is important to help aid a and facilitate for traditions and social gatherings to find place also within the refugees centers. Designing phase was done during 5-days pre-workshop and preparation works before the start of the prototyping part. Core of the structure was build during the two week workshop in July 2022 by students and teachers from both schools: Faculty of architecture and design STU in Bratislava, Slovakia and Bergen school of architecture /BAS, Norway; financed by EEA grants project EMIA- Empathy in art.