Marginal Porosity

The fabric of the site can be separated in four distinct zones:

• Shops - the most dynamic zone of the fabric

• Junkyard - dumping, management and segregation of waste

• Garage - maintenance and repairing happens

• Service road - restricted

There is very little intermingling that happens among the people inhabiting these zones.

Question:

What will it mean to seam together the four zones of the site? Will it be a focal point or an axis through the space that pulls together this fabric?

Can architecture provoke the amalgamation of a broad and distinct fabric of a place? What form emerges to create a space for it?

Site Analysis:

Conceptual sketches:

System diagrams:

Sizing of components:

Programs and interventions:

• Food stalls with seating spaces.

Stalls - 33.27 sq m

Seating spaces - 26.22 sq m

• Exhibition and studio spaces.

Exhibition space - 97.52 sq m

Studios - 23.01 sq m

• Toilets.

Existing - 8.01 sq m

Retrofitted - 4.51 sq m

• Trucks as inhabitable spaces - 28.8 sq m

• Segregation unit - 220.32 sq m

Final model:

Spatial views:

Roof plans:

Plan cut at 1.5 metres height:

Layout plans: