Cocina Rural Telúrica | Telluric Rural Kitchen

Cocina Rural Telúrica (Telluric Rural Kitchen) is a community service project designed and constructed by Architecture students. The purpose is to create a traditional kitchen for the family of Eliseo and Luisa. This family suffered the earthquake of 2017 in the town of Tochimilco, and as a resilient family they want to improve their habitat conditions. The project includes eco-technology like solar-water-heating and soapy-water-separation.

One of the main purposes of the project was to re-introduce traditional construction systems with clay and to design with the family, a rural kitchen based on their needs.

The Telluric Kitchen is a pilot program in cooperation with the Chair of Land Management at TU München and funded by the Ministry of Education of Germany.

Project director: Dr. Eng. Melissa Schumacher

Design: Ileana Jimena Pérez Jimenez

Master Plan: Miguel Ángel Ordaz

Technichal Supervision: Antonio Zepeda, Arch. (MIRC Constructora)

Team building: Ilse Dominguez Vigoritto, Said López Santos, Bryan Soto, Erick Dominguez, Pamela Candelaria, Ricardo Márquez

Technical Description

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Building Walls

Finally, the team of Community Service from Architecture is helping Don Eliseo and his family to build uo the Adobe Walls for his kitchen.

It was a long learning journey, not only for students, also for Don Eliseo, a construction worker and farmer who didn´t know how to make adobes. With the help of Antoni Zepeda, architect specialized in Vernacular Architecture, we were able to teach Eliseo and students how to make adobes.

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