Cultural Flavours
2022 - 2023
The Bahamas
Titled: ‘Cultural Flavours’, this project’s brief was to introduce a flavour of an alternative culture into an area of Ipswich via a family run restaurant which would operate parallel to their residential facility. For its current lack of representation in Ipswich, the culture chosen was Bahamian. This project offered an opportunity for a family to live - and share their lifestyle and cuisine all under one roof.
This concept introduces a variety of textures and zoning styles found in a Bahamian landscape. Semi-covered areas are woven into green spaces, contrasting yet rooting the architecture in its context.
Translating the Bahamian landscape, the building would reflect the levels from the shoreline up to the dwellings. The layers build upon each other, each stepping backwards, with vegetation blending sand to architecture.
Heat leads to a lack in comfort both indoors and outdoors with the most temperate area as semi-enclosed verandas and balconies, often wrapped in shutters, raised for maximising ventilation.
Lifestyle, Food & Entertainment
The result provided a flavourful Bahamian space for social encounter and exchange, in the heart of Suffolk via a rooftop bar, 1st floor restaurant and ground floor living quarters. The architecture gave the family a space for fluent living between home and working environments where they could live, work and share their culture with their community.
