Piles of grain sacks were used to create the walls of this mobile pop-up cafe and bakery in Hangzhou, China, which was designed by local studio FOG Architecture.
Called the Cycle Cycle Mobile Bakehouse, the pavilion was designed following the lockdown of Shanghai during the Covid-19 pandemic as a means of exploring how food could re-activate public space.
Sacks of grain form the walls of the Cycle Cycle Mobile Bakehouse
FOG Architecture looked to traditional rural barns to inform the structure of Mobile Bakehouse, creating a modular timber structure that could be easily demounted and transported from city to city on the back of a truck.
As the bakehouse moved to new locations, FOG Architecture created a short film to capture its different uses and sites. FOG Architecture was informed by rural barns when designing the structure
"After the Shanghai lockdown, we all felt a need to build something to reconnect people, and food, especially bread and coffee, was such a picture that we could vision during that time," Zheng Yu, parter at FOG Architecture told Dezeen.
"Architecturally, I think of it as a deployable food device that can change the speed of flow of a public zone in cities."
"The opening of this shop is a process of unfolding, which inserts a performative moment into the streets, and then the smell of bread lures people to get along and grab something," he added.
The modular timber structure can be transported
Once the Cycle Cycle Mobile B...