AVL Canteen, 1999

This kitchen and dining area for 16 people was originally made for an exhibition in Bourneville, UK. Bourneville is a village built in the early twentieth century by the Cadbury chocolate company for its factory employees. The purpose of the company’s founders was to provide good homes with large gardens: spacious, dry and light. Common facilities were also made, such as the men’s recreation grounds, whose austere athletic fields are marked by the occasional dressing room. By contrast, the women’s recreation grounds consisted of an idyllic park with brooks and hills, which was hermetically sealed off from the men and only accessible through a guarded tunnel. Bourneville remains an idyllic place, and the ban on alcohol is still in effect.