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The Launch Video

The Launch

The Goods

The three elements of the Mobile Community Kitchen for Mount Dennis.

Setting up for the Review

The Table Cart Deploys for the Studio Review

The Last days

Construction video

Time lapse video of final assembly at the Faculty of Architecture on Wednesday Ap. 23. 9am - 3 am. Enjoy.

Construction is complete!

the mobile kitchen is deployed on UofT for an academic review. Tomorrow we take to Mount Dennis. Join us!

Finishing up the Kitchen Cart - bbq and rollers

Publish Post

Quotes from the Community Kitchen attendees

“ Since visiting the community kitchen on Friday nights I really look forward to coming here. We talk about the student’s project and I contribute my time. I feel my ideas are important and welcomed. They treat me like its me …and my opinions matter. I loved putting my sewing skills to use helping to make the canopy part. When it’s ready to go up I’ll be so proud to know that I was involved in it”

Joise

Retired seamstress and Oxford Drive resident.

“What a blast. I have a great time on Fridays and look forward to the progress made by the students each week. They have really listened to the residents who will be using this mobile kitchen in the future. I have also enjoyed all the different kinds of interactions between people you would never see anywhere else. It’s been a real eye opener – highly recommended and entertaining… have enjoyed every minute of it. Looking forward to many more of these special moments this summer…”

Catherine

President of Peregrine Security Consulting Ltd.

“I had no idea this happened on Friday nights in my area. I had feelings of being so isolated over the winter months that it was depressing. I felt not much happened around here. Now that’s different since coming to this Kitchen. I feel like I belong, everyone does, to the same group. We worked together with the students from the University and we got to see how they worked on a project. Maybe they learned a little from us too.”

Richard

Resident and parent

“It has been fun to watch the process unfold naturally--- Organic and creative, and emerging with Spring time….. and well done all! “

Rick

Mount Dennis/Weston Network

Surfacing the laminated table tops for the small cart

and Harry working diligently on the table for the big cart.

Assembling The Canopy

Three Days, Three Carts

Tuesday, 10:16AM: Graham, Gene and I head to Punchclock for what was intended to be the final day of welding.

Wednesday, 6:45AM: This turns out to not be the case.

Wednesday, 12:20PM: A trip to Solway Metal, our generous steel supplier.

Wednesday, 1:07PM: Jamie's house in Mississauga, site of the Medium Cart's construction. We swap tall tales and drop off supplies.

Tuesday, 4:15PM: Scott and Luke join as at Punchclock. Just as things get really rolling. . .

. . . Rocky shows up and informs us that he's gotta weld, so we gotta go.

Thursday, 5:45AM: Graham, Luke, Gene and I head to Punchclock for what was intended to be the final day of welding . . . again.

Thursday, 9:12AM: Who knew Luke had such bright white teeth!

Thursday, 11:01AM: Unfortunately, the welder at Punchclock is broken, so we head to Jamie's, picking up Scott along the way. . .

Thursday, 1:55PM: The three carts loaded for final delivery to the galvanizers!

2:31PM: Arrival at the galvanizing facility. Galvanizing for our project was generously donated by Pure Metal.

Scott was kind enough to provide one of his now-infamous tours, this time of the drop-off area out back.

3:18PM: Done! Presenting the Mount Dennis Mobile Community Kitchen, ready for galvanizing. The Large Cart. . .

. . . the Small Cart. . .

. . . and the Medium Cart.

And then: disaster. Tim gently informed us that our drainage holes were inadequate. "You'll need holes here. . . and here . . . and here. . . and here. And here. And here."

After a stop for some drill bits, we proceeded to Prototype Design Lab, where we rounded up 4 drills (and the assistance of Kevin - thanks Kevin!), and proceeded to drill some 100-odd 3/8" holes.

Thursday, 9:34PM: Done . . . again.

Thursday, 10:01PM: Who knew that galvanizing happened 24 hours a day?

Thursday, 10:12PM: Dave, filling in the requisite forms with Graham . . .



. . . "16 TABLES + FRAMES + MISC." See you on Tuesday, Dave - and thank you very much from all of use here at Assembling a Molecular Architecture.

the small cart goes for its first walk

building the structural frames for the big and small carts

key-hole mechanism for the trash can in the small cart

Four easy steps to remove the trash can from the small cart.





















Step 1: grab the trash can handles.






















Step 2: orient trash can handles to key-hole slots in the cart frame.





















Step 3: drop the trash can through the key-hole slot.






















Step 4: place trash can on the ground.






















and you are done!

Together At Last

Kitchen Cart Progress

Kitchen Cart Working Drawings

Small Cart Table Process

Kitchen Cart 1:5 model

The Sink

Punchclock Workshop

Thanks to the guys of Punchclock for letting us use their space. Below are some pics - bad ones. Better ones to follow.



All done and packed up.

Working at OCAD

Trailer Hitch / Tarp Pole

OK, I think I've got the hitch/pole figured out. Imagine a telescoping pole with three sailboat halyards installed inside.

Of note:
-it extends from 1.5m (hitch mode) to 2.5m (max tarp mode) in 10cm increments
-it rotates on one axis at the cart end and on three axes at the bike end, eliminating the jacknife feature of the first prototype (thanks Adrian!)
-in hitch mode, the hook can be tightened down, eliminating the rattle feature of the first prototype. the new design also eliminates the pin that held the hook in place, which was both awkward and sketchy.
-the rope is 1/4" braided nylon - strong enough to hold a large sailboat sail up.
-aluminum would be ideal, and hopefully not too expensive.
-each cart would need a 100mm x 100mm x 5mm plate installed in front of the rotating wheel pivot, and on top wherever poles might go.
-in pole mode, there are three equalized ropes - one for the tarp (with a hook that can accommodate several grommets when the tarp is folded) and two to attach to the ground (a block, a fence, a stake)

Whaddya think?