Designing a Next-Gen Teaching Facility

1856 is the first-of-its-kind, student-run culinary experience in the Tony and Libba Rane Culinary Science Center in Auburn, Alabama. Designed by The Johnson Studio at Cooper Carry, the facility provides real-world experience for the next generation of chefs and hospitality leaders. 

Features of the facility include:

An open expo kitchen with TVs for professors to examine students’ work, wider walkways and a glass atrium to allow teachers to give real-time instruction in the midst of an active restaurant environment Increased table space to ccommodate the student’s developing plating skills and limited seating provides more room for a professor-guided performance. Two-story high windows that extend up to the second floor classrooms so that other students can peer in.   Art featured throughout the facility pays homage to the University and the fresh ingredients used daily in the 1856 kitchen - four kaleidoscope art pieces for each season of the year. A rooftop garden sits on…