Friday, 26 June 2015

Brick and Bread Bakery//Shirley LEE [Y3]





Bricks and bread are the very stuff of life in the suburbs of London, and not least in Golders Green, where the bread-making rituals of time-honoured Jewish tradition can still be found. Of similar size, yet of different material and purpose, bricks and bread happen to share a common process for their production, that of baking. So this scheme proposes that these baking activities should be combined into one hybridized building sitting between a row of semi-detached dwellings and a former music hall venue, the Golders Green Hippodrome. The two tall chimneys for the brick-making and bread-making act as practical and symbolic references to the domestic rituals which take place each day in the houses around.

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