A design collaboration between M ARCH Architecture and BA Ceramic Design.
This project has been developed with the intention of providing community access to the pleasures of social making in urban settings. The first iteration has been built, installed and commissioned at the Skip Garden in London’s King's Cross development area. The intention is to evolve and proliferate such facilities for the benefit of communities locally, nationally, and internationally. The Kiln House, the second iteration of the project, has been designed and built by the M ARCH: Architecture Unit 3 students with the kiln itself designed and built by Duncan Hooson (BA Ceramic Design, Stage One Leader) and Andy Allum, Ceramic Technician, Central Saint Martins.
The Community Kiln evolved out of Ignition: a partnership between Central Saint Martins' Ceramics Department and Global Generations Skip Garden, King's Cross, which has grown out of the success of Central Saint Martins' Local Encounters programme of creative engagement.
Following various events and local engagement activities in the area as part of Ignition, the two organisations recognised the benefits of building a semi-permanent outdoor kiln on the Skip Garden site. To deliver the project a new collaboration was formed between the College’s BA Ceramic Design and M ARCH: Architecture courses to design and build the first community kiln in the King’s Cross area.
