Smokehouse

Y5 Studio project, MArch at University of Sheffield, UK

Grimsby Smokehouse addresses local issues of under-representation and lack of social interaction through communal eating and celebration of Grimsby’s traditional food-smoking. The programme consists of a smokehouse, which inhabits an abandoned fish market, and a coffeehouse, a new volume evolved from historical coffeehouses - which were places for discussion and progress. The plan is constructed by placement of chimneys (either smoke cores or hearths), around which food stalls, work areas and gathering places are arranged. Across the street, Grimsby’s derelict ice factory is transformed into a winter garden, which resolves by-products of the smoking process and produces raw ingredients and fuel.