Cultivate Hut
By Field Studio of Architecture + Urbanism
Next to a plum tree and overlooking an urban farm sits a small hut, built with the community and on a budget.
Cultivate Christchurch is a social enterprise that combines productive urban farming, youth development and community engagement. They needed a weatherproof meeting room on site, big enough to fit six people around a table but less than ten square metres to eliminate the need for costly and time consuming consent processes.
The brief
This community project was initiated by Thrive Taumarunui Trust and Cultivate as part of the Vodafone NZ Foundation change accelerator programme. Their top priority was to erect a weather tight building with a very short timeframe and small budget.
A collaborative effort
In partnership with Thrive and Cultivate we designed this basic hut with a simple but striking asymmetrical pitched roof and recycled corrugated iron cladding. The project gathered lots of support, with Colorsteel donating the roofing, and Velux a skylight for good light and ventilation. Using largely reclaimed and donated materials, Thrive constructed the small building over a few days with help from local builders.
The result, completed within three weeks of our introduction meeting, is a cosy yellow roofed hub with great views out to the gardens to help Cultivate keep doing their good work.
Clients: Thrive Taumarunui Trust, Cultivate Christchurch, Vodafone NZ Foundation
Field Studio core project team: Amiria Kiddle, Oliver Latimer
Photography: Jonny Knopp
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Along with residential builds and major commercial projects, we contribute to projects and organisations that have a positive impact on the community. Drawing on our 10 years experience of community development following the Canterbury earthquakes, Field has developed significant experience working on projects that have social, cultural, ecological and values-based purposes.
Our team is diverse, highly skilled, and above all, collaborative. We foster strong working relationships with clients, stakeholders, consultants and contractors to enable us to respond effectively to the needs of each project, ultimately achieving high quality architectural outcomes.
Our design process starts with listening to the people involved to better understand the needs of the project. We then integrate and balance these needs and aspirations through different design mediums, ensuring collective understanding and involvement in decision making.
From small-scale residential to major commercial builds, our professional skills and experience means we are able to ensure high quality architecture that is fit for purpose, efficiently and creatively achieved.
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