studio sideproject
We are a full service, POC/women owned architecture and design practice located in Oakland, California.The Guerrilla Coffee Unit (GCU) refutes the gentrified, high end coffee-laden streetscapes by creating a free urban kitchen table and sanctuary for the city’s ever-more visible homeless population.
The GCU creates a new safe space to converse, listen and tell stories by giving someone on the street a literal place to sit, a warm cup of coffee, and someone to listen to.
We posit that the GCU has the potential to be a tool for advocacy of the state of homelessness, to promote communication between the sheltered and the un-sheltered, and create community space, however small and transient.