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Outdoor Kitchen Design/Build


Research Studio
Tulane University
Profs. Emilie Taylor Welty & Jose Cotto
2021

This design-build studio partnered with a local farm to construct an outdoor teaching kitchen.


Sugar Roots Farm is a teaching farm in New Orleans that educates K-12 students on ecological stewardship and food production. This design-build studio partnered with Sugar Roots Farm, in collaboration with the Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design at Tulane University, to construct an outdoor educational kitchen.

I and my 23 classmates worked with the farm to realize a multipurpose space for educational programming and food processing. The structure features secure storage, ample counter space, and a washing station. An entrance ramp leads to a boardwalk that looks out over a flood-mitigating bioswale. Along the kitchen’s eastern edge, a series of screen-walls with signage identify Sugar Roots as a fun, educational, and change-oriented organization. The structure serves as a welcoming entrance to the farm that signals their mission.


Front perspective Street perspective Massing diagrams Site plan Section Water management Perspective Pavilion during final review



Giuliana Vaccarino Gearty

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Giuliana is an architect and researcher of cultural landscapes. Her projects span across eras and oceans, from cooperative housing in Sweden to the reuse of tuna fisheries in Sicily. Giuliana’s research has received multiple awards, including the Robert A. M. Stern Travel Fellowship and the University of Chicago Feitler Prize. Her work has been published in the edited volume Tradition and Invention, Dezeen, and PLATFORM. She lives and works in New Orleans.