Upon analyzing previous iterations, there is clearly the need to consider the adapted concept of 'Cookery School for the Brokenhearted' on site as a whole.
Variation in number/thickness of trees either provides glimpses of secrets or hiding them entirely; determining privacy.
Design Proposal
Grow. Cook. Eat.
Cooking as the heart of programme.
Rules of Site
Rules of Cookery School
The trees barricading the site from noise of the highway, now the heart of site.
The runaway forest
More trees
storage
kitchen
teaching kitchen
dining
food library/ observation gallery
Cookery school and restaurant joined by the common use of (dry and cold) storage
communal dining
single dining
kitchen
storage
kitchen
The exterior view may be more important to some programmes than others. For example, single diners would engage with the scenery better than communal diners.
Different quality of view/scenery
Direct or indirect routes around and towards the canal.
Journey of healing
Elevated and on ground pathways through trees
Movement from one end of the room to another could be perceived as an achievement.
Progress