Katerina Nordgaard

About

Katerina Nordgaard is a designer who is interested in the connection between people & people and people & nature. How humans are directly influenced by natural elements and how this influences not only how we feel within ourselves but also how we interact with others. She is interested in exploring the relationship of people within different surroundings and designing to bring people together.

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Degree Details

Roots

Fourth floor summer restaurant
Fourth floor summer restaurant — The fourth floor has the most amount of sunlight. The restaurant will be based on root vegetables grown in summer. The materials will be based on glass and sand.
Ground floor cellar restaurant
Ground floor cellar restaurant — The root cellar restaurant is on the ground floor. This restaurant stores all the roots which have been grown throughout the year for future consumption. The restaurant will be made primarily of mudbrick.
Third floor spring restaurant
Third floor spring restaurant — The spring restaurant is based on the third floor. This restaurant is based on sandstone and sand. It hosts root vegetables grown in spring.

Roots

HOW CAN A SELF-SUSTAINING RESTAURANT BECOME A TOOL FOR LEARNING ABOUT FOOD SEASONALITY, GROWTH, PREPARATION, STORAGE, EATING AND COMPOSTING?

Standing within the first six columns, east facing, of the Junction Box on 25 Bowater Road, "Roots" hosts six restaurants all based on root vegetables. The cellar restaurant, where the roots are stored throughout the year, is set on the ground floor. The first floor hosts the winter restaurant based on winter-based roots vegetables. The second floor will host the fall restaurant and the third floor the spring restaurant. The fourth floor as it has the most amount of sunlight, will host the summer restaurant, where a large quantity of the root vegetables will grow. The rooftop will have a lounge area for root-based drinks and it will also have a greenhouse where more summer based root vegetables will grow within a hydroponic system.

Overall the deign strategy is based on ideal visibility and transparency. Allowing for the different floors to be visualised from different angles at all times. The experience aims at being fluid and allowing for natural sunlight to pass through the different floors naturally.

WHY ROOTS?

46% of all food consumption in the UK is imported.

1% of food supply in London comes from Local farming.

After doing research on UK's food consumption, I decided to focus on and explore foods native to the UK. Root vegetables are locally to the United Kingdom and can be grown year-round.

Medium: Watercolour

Size: 420 x 297

Materiality

Materials
Materials — As the project is based on and dealing with the growing, preparation, eating and overall educating of root vegetables. All the materials used for this project will be based primarily on earth and sand.
Materials
Materials

Medium: Earth and Sand