Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Marketplaces : The Frame

PHASE 3 THE FRAME



JUNGLE FLOWER MARKET

In the first part, after doing researches and analysis of markets we extract some programs from them.
My four programs are : flowers, shophouses, Frichti and Birchbox. I analysis and search everything we need to make them happen. Then I connect, link them to create a diagram.
The concept of my diagram is to show the integration of four programs into shophouse. Each program is integrated into the shophouse following the “strict” way a shophouse is organise and the three economic sectors : primary (the retrieval and production of raw materials), secondary (the transformation of raw or intermediate materials into goods) and finally tertiary sector (the supplying of services to consumers and businesses).
A shophouse is “a vernacular architectural building type that is commonly seen in areas such as urban Southeast Asia. Shophouses are mostly two or three stories high, with a shop on the ground floor for mercantile activity and a residence above the shop”.
All this helped me to create the organisation of my flower market. I create a architectonic wall in the middle which connects the two parts of the market. The circulation is in diagonal so people circulate everywhere in the market. You can find the idea of inside and out with the help of materiality and also because it’s a very open market.
This is one way to organise the market but it can also expand. Today the shophouses in Bangkok have their groundfloor occupied but the floors are empty so you can imagine to use the floors to expand the market but also to use the rooftops to make a bigger greenhouse to produce more and import less.