The intervention occupies a long-vacant parking lot in the center of Chinatown. A deliberate reprieve from the concentrated chaos of the neighborhood, the project deliberately limits itself to a ground floor and an upper level park. Inspired by butter, three curvilinear layers encapsulate a community kitchen and restaurant, where local residents are able to cook and pass on their cultural culinary traditions.

The ground topography rises, slopes, and dips to form the seating. The ceiling responds to these changes in height, also derived by the HVAC and MEP utilities concealed within. And a third roof layer serves as an open-air park, with patches of herbs intermixed among the seating contours.  Ceiling and roof layers appear to be suspended above the glass interior volume, conspicuously supported by an irregular grid of steel beams sitting on circulation cores on either side of the building. Initially conceived to be mathematically developable using hypars and conics, the final contours required more complex doubly-curved surfaces, which are intended to be realized in thermo-formed plastic and fiberglass.‍