Marketplaces : Depiction

PHASE 4 DEPICTION

JUNGLE FLOWER MARKET

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.

Marketplaces : Scenarios for exchanges

PHASE 2 SCENARIOS FOR EXCHANGES

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”.

Marketplaces : Market analysis

PHASE 1 MARKET ANALYSIS

After doing researches and going to the two Bangkok’s markets, I analyse and try to find one specific topics for each one of them. First « Les Halles » what’s interesting in this project is the limits that the architect Victor Baltard tried to erase with his covered streets and the very thin structure so we don’t really know if we are inside or outside. Then for the permanent market, Pak Khlong Talat flower market I focus on the little « shops » inside the market: a space into a space. How to create a place which is both private and public, a space which need to be open to interact with the customers and close to stock the flowers and stuff. Finally, the temporary market, Siam Gyspsy market, my focal point is the different layers we can see in this market namely: the shops of the market, the circulation of the market, the highway which is situated just above the shops, the railways, the BTS … and how all this is organise.