GIY

(Grow It Yourself)

Grow It Yourself’s new home is a 375sqm building set within a 0.9 hectare urban food garden. It is a home-grown and local food training centre, urban food growing showcase, cookery school, café, farm shop and gardens. GIY HQ is the home of the GIY movement internationally, and the hub from which they run awareness, education and outreach programmes.

The urban location makes this a thoroughly unique project. The building contains course rooms, a shop as well as a café. The cafe’s design ethos and position within the building and relationship to the garden reflect the objectives of Grow HQ, which is to bridge the gap between “where food comes from and eating it,” there should be sense of “growing where you eat and eating where you grow”.

Completed: 2016