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Umass Dining Hall. A Path To Resiliency, Lukasz Czarniecki
Umass Dining Hall. A Path To Resiliency, Lukasz Czarniecki
Masters Theses
This thesis investigates integration of University’s Dining Hall and Emergency Shelter in terms of their inter-related sustainability factors; the ability to take advantage of the site to harvest, store, grow and learn about all aspects of food production, and to provide a safe place to stay during times of emergency.
The program, in addition to being a dining hall, is concerned with teaching about food science and culinary studies, relating to the agrarian history of the University of Massachusetts and bringing that history into the current moment with the resurgence of localized food production and in support of the UMass …