Any change, whether banal or groundbreaking, has the ability to radically transform our environment with a snowball effect. Architecture, being an exceptionally nervous system, is the prime field where these changes are radically manifested. Yet often such changes pass unnoticed because, in their advent, they are usually confined within other scientific fields (Culinary studies, thanatology etc).

"Almost Kitchen" is more of a thought experiment rather than a solid proposal per se. Its goal is to pick an emerging technology as its starting point and explore all the different domesticities and spatial trajectories that may emerge from this slight change. Imagining entire cities the moment someone merely whispers the idea of the elevator requires one to deeply understand the idea behind the technology and the ecology it exists in. This, as an idea, drives our work as we believe it should be integrated in the architectural pedagogy as a method of speculative architecture making.