OXT
2017 LONDON
Mobile Kitchen / Art Project
Invited by artist Kevin van Braak, we contributed to OXT, a project realised during the Sonsbeek’16 Art Festival in Arnhem. OXT functioned as a temporary open wood workshop installed within the park, where invited artists and designers created works using timber sourced directly from the surrounding landscape.
As part of this initiative we designed and built a mobile outdoor kitchen, serving daily meals for participants throughout the duration of the festival. The kitchen acted as both a practical infrastructure and a social focal point within the workshop environment.
The project was constructed entirely from locally sourced hardwood, cut, sawn, and dried from trees within the park itself — primarily oak, beech, and ash — emphasising the festival’s ethos of local material use, temporary construction, and collaborative making.
Project: OXT — Sonsbeek’16
Artist: Kevin van Braak
Design & Production: Workshop & Studio – Bakker Ltd
SPECIFICATIONS
Structure
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Mobile kitchen structure constructed entirely from locally sourced solid hardwood.
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Timber harvested from trees within Sonsbeek Park, then cut, sawn, and dried on site as part of the OXT workshop process.
Timber Species
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Oak
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Beech
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Ash
Construction
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Solid timber framing and work surfaces assembled using straightforward mechanical joinery suitable for rapid fabrication within the temporary workshop environment.
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Components dimensioned to allow manual transport and reconfiguration within the park setting.
Work Surfaces & Preparation Areas
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Solid hardwood preparation surfaces designed for daily cooking and food preparation during the festival.
Mobility
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Kitchen conceived as a mobile and temporary installation, enabling repositioning within the workshop and festival site.
Finish
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Timber surfaces left largely natural and untreated, reflecting the project’s emphasis on immediate use of freshly processed local material.
Construction Strategy
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Rapid-build, site-based fabrication using locally sourced timber, aligning with the project’s ethos of temporary architecture, collaborative making, and material immediacy within the festival environment.
Carpentry & Joinery WORKSHOP & STUDIO for Architecture & Design
