Salvaged Jungle Kitchen
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The Zen Complex features the Zen Guest House (a 96-square-foot sleeping quarter), the Zen Bathroom (a 48-square-foot, freestanding bathroom equipped with a toilet, sink, and shower), and the latest addition: the six-foot-wide, six-foot-deep, 12-foot-tall Zen Kitchen. -
Sewell capitalizes on discarded material from local sugar mills with which to cast his creations. His process is simple, he says: "I salvage, collect, and assemble." -
Using a forklift, crane, and backhoe to put the pieces in place, Sewell and assistants welded the form together. -
Up on top, the kitchen is capped by two sheets of glass. -
Inside the small space are a sink, propane stove, and small refrigerator. "The kitchen only needs to function for one or two people so the six-by-six footprint is satisfactory," Sewell says. -
The kitchen looks out to Sewell's house and his art studio. "I am particularly fascinated by the random designs of the metal plates after parts have been cut out," he says. -
A small door lets cooks and hungry interns into the Cor-Ten steel and corrugated polycarbonate tube. -
"I like the drama of such a small kitchen rising up 12’ in the air next to the large palm trees," Sewell says. Up next: another guest house.
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