Multicultural Student Dining Centre / Benedict Tay

There are around 100,000 overseas students in London and yet the social integration between them remains weak. Here is a project for a new kind of student facility in which different ethnic groups can come together to share knowledge of food and cooking. It is located within a small community park in the West End that lies equidistant between a few major universities. As part of the building’s external skin, fine screens cover the external terraced areas and are able to collect rainfall and then release it slowly  such that they drip for effect over a period of a few hours, helping to cool the heat produced in the kitchens inside.