Built to Nourish: Reimagining high street through food and pedagogy Part 1 Project 2025 Jimmy Cho University of Wales Trinity Saint David Swansea | UK Caerphilly is a town shaped by absence. Its industrial legacy lingers, yet little remains to connect its past with a viable civic future. While the castle offers an undeniable visual and historical anchor, the surrounding townscape lacks coherence and cultural assets lie scattered and unlinked. This scheme responds to that condition, proposing an architectural intervention that rethinks both structure and programme through the lens of food.A new pedestrian route weaves through the town, linking fragmented streets and communities. At its centre sits a multifunctional hub that brings together agriculture, education, and hospitality. Local production such as cheese, crops, and meals becomes both performance and pedagogy. Visitors engage not just as spectators but as participants. The architecture is legible and open, constructed from timber and assembled with honesty, inviting understanding of its making.The project aims to foster identity through everyday acts of cultivation and exchange. It draws strength from the overlooked and reframes Caerphilly’s cultural fragments as a shared resource. In doing so, it establishes a framework for growth in social, economic, and spatial terms. This is not a nostalgic return but a reassembly of place. A gathering. A beginning. Tutor(s) Paul Harries Gavin Traylor