Brief and Agenda

Permanent Market and New Town SquareA Manifesto for a Local Consumerism Movement

I propose a permanent market, functional, to some capacity, 24 hours a day. On site permanently, this building will house a permanentmarket space that is flexible and can be used as an informal performance space, a tram distribution stop for the transference of trading to awider area, germination towers, for the initial growth of crop to distribute to the local community, as well as providing a public landscape forsocial interaction.The building is located on a lost and forgotten space in East London. A space where historically a market took place, along the convergencelines of transports, here, the edges between industrial, residential and the over-ground train line.The workers will be the community, the functions happen around their daily schedules, the cultivation of the germinating crops tended to bythose who invest in the co-operative:

Co-operative Scheme; ‘an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily, to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through jointly owned and democratically controlled enterprise’. It may also be defined as a business that is owned and controlled completely by those people who use it and work there.

-The building and scheme, with its many functions and interwoven programs, has three main objectives in its ideas and construction:1 – In response to and in order to take advantage of, the Government’s Revolution on growth and society.2 – To create awareness between consumption, the user and growth and to educate.3 – To form a cyclical building where waste creates beauty, and function allows participation.

Funding

Funding to build this sort of a building; a large and open public space for trade and growth, will require government and public support inorder to produce a society that accepts this building not only as an ‘object’, or stand alone construction in this location, but as a strategy andtypology that can be seen as a prototype on my site.

There are many different strategies that can aid this type of construction, for example the Conservative Government and it’s ‘Big Society’, aswell as many more organizations that focus their time and effort on promoting community and the growth of food in the city. For example:

- Government’s Grow Your Own Revolution

This aims to give support to reduce our dependency on imports, by reforming the EU’s common agricultural and fishing policies.Cross-departmental policy report (Food 2030) aims to support further farmers and community markets to boost consumption of localproduce. This is also driven by the FFLP, a community driven body that aims to promote awareness. (Food For Life Partnership)

- The Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens

A charity that supports and promotes community managed farms, gardens, allotments and other green spaces, creating opportunities forlocal communities to grow. It also tries to empower local people, across the age spectrum, from different backgrounds and abilities, to buildbetter communities, usually in developed areas, and to provide decision makers, funders and the media.

- SHAPE East

A London based program, supported by the Government, to promote a positive influence on the quality of urban design and the builtenvironment, through supporting the professional community, engaging the public and facilitating debate and understanding between thetwo. It supporters (among others) are:The Architect Centre NetworkCABEEnglish HeritagePrivate Trustees

Megan Townsend - Unit 22

A Manifesto for Urban Consumerism Movement

The Vulnerable Community of Market Stall Holders

6 DESIGNSfor a revolution of the urban market

Megan Townsend

Portfolio 2011-2012

Unit 22

A Manifesto for Urban Consumerism Movement

Tower Hamlets permanent market and new Town Square

New Town Square, Market and Germination Towers

Megan Townsend

Portfolio 2012-2013

Unit 22

Site Location

The site I have chosen is located within East London, within the borough of Tower Hamlets. This area has a diverse cultural spread, as well as a diverse mixture of typologies. Being historically an area of london that contained a mixture of industry, residential and com-munity based areas, along with more green space than more inner city areas, the site seemed perfect for creating a new town square typology. There are many ‘high streets’ but not many traditional town squares within the area, where the market and community growing and selling can thrive.

Hopefully this will be created with my new idea for a model typology, that could be rolled out across the country and across similar sites in other countries, that need the town square typology bought back to teh urban landscape.

Surrounding the site not only combines the more indus-trial and mechanical activities of a historically produc-tive area of the city.

But also the more residential areas with playgrounds and schools. Traditionally workers lived where their industry was, and it wasnt more true than in East London.

Feb 09, 2012 15:32Scale 1:2500

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@ Landmark Information Group Ltd and Crown copyright 2011. FOR EDUCATIONAL USE ONLY. Historic map of my site and area from 1850, with the Great Eastern Railway cutting through, but with a huge amount of more dense housing and industrial mixed use.

Plan, Agenda and Future Ambitions

Starting from now, and throughout the next seven years. Meet the people who will take part and use the build-ing.

Project Introduction

Unit 22 Agenda - DARE TO CARE. Architecture taking care of vulnerable realities.

“There are no small issues. Issues that appear small are large issues that are not understood.” Santiago RAMÓN Y CAJAL, Advices for a Young Investigator We were told modernization aspired to improve the well fare state. Paradoxically, following several authors remarks, we could presume that what it has in fact produced is a rise of vulnerability. According, for example, to Giddens, since we have reached the ‘End of Nature’ and the ‘End of Tradition’, we are no longer in a time of ‘External Risk’ but now we live in a time of ‘Manufactured Risk’, our environmental worries are no longer about what nature might do to us, but what we are doing to nature. Technification pushed us to hold to the illusion that humans are invulnerable, with our magnificent creations, our cities and our technologies. This resulting system allows economic privilege and the short-sightedness of the economic sphere to overwhelm the ecologi-cal and social realities in which we all live. Many threats, such as asbestos, smoking, and poverty, have remained unnoticed or unattended to, especially for architects, despite being as dangerous as threats which receive publicity and action.

The twentieth century has not brought vulnerability to the core of the architectural community in a technical sense. Weakness and fragility were not desir-able structural conditions in a tradition in which FIRMITAS was an undeniable requirement for buildings. Being able to deal with, what in other times would have been considered weak and fragile materials, is now a technical task even distinguishing good architecture from mere construction: “anyone can build using a lot of material… taking weight away from things, however, teaches you to make the shape of structures to do the work, to understand the limits of strength of components and to replace rigidity with flexibility…”.

Our brief will focus on how the protection of vulnerable realities can be a task for contemporary architecture as long as architects change some design hab-its. Some of these changes follow:

- We will measure the quality of architecture by its ability to represent the interest and programs of others.

- We will abandon anthropocentrism rejecting human activities as more important than natural events.

- We will accept and include the legitimacy of different aesthetical repertoires. Tenderness, Closeness, Affection has not been part of the architects’ official aesthetics but will be part of the “structure of feelings” that our projects will promote.

- We will include the ecological limits and dependence of everything we design.

- We want the student to learn to build clues from observing, participating and experimenting. Knowledge coming from sharing the future performance of our architecture will be postulated as much more reliable than that deducted from theoretical propositions.

- Bathrooms, stairs, kitchens and other rooms considered to be service spaces will now be fundamental. In the same way all architecture will deserve our interest not matter how small, peripheral or academically irrelevant seem at first glance.

- We will consider any waste or small part of already used materials as candidates to create new components for our architecture.

- We won´t avoid break, mistake or error. On the contrary, we will look for creating breakable conditions that not only can be relevant academically, but can ensure reversibility or that stimulate adaptation and change.

Opposite I show my 6 designs relating to the vulnerable community I chose to study, the vulnerable com-munity of Market Stall Holders. Looking at this vulnerable community, I explored ways that they could potentialy thrive within the modern urban landscape, with a general lifestyle today of convenience and speed when it comes to food and our relationships to growing and buying.

Design:

1 - The Tram market2 - The Carrousel spectacle3 - The Cow Station4 - The Fold outMarket for the Forgotten Space5 - An Urban System rfor Growth

Brief and Agenda

Permanent Market and New Town SquareA Manifesto for a Local Consumerism Movement

I propose a permanent market, functional, to some capacity, 24 hours a day. On site permanently, this building will house a permanentmarket space that is flexible and can be used as an informal performance space, a tram distribution stop for the transference of trading to awider area, germination towers, for the initial growth of crop to distribute to the local community, as well as providing a public landscape forsocial interaction.The building is located on a lost and forgotten space in East London. A space where historically a market took place, along the convergencelines of transports, here, the edges between industrial, residential and the over-ground train line.The workers will be the community, the functions happen around their daily schedules, the cultivation of the germinating crops tended to bythose who invest in the co-operative:

Co-operative Scheme; ‘an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily, to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through jointly owned and democratically controlled enterprise’. It may also be defined as a business that is owned and controlled completely by those people who use it and work there.

-The building and scheme, with its many functions and interwoven programs, has three main objectives in its ideas and construction:1 – In response to and in order to take advantage of, the Government’s Revolution on growth and society.2 – To create awareness between consumption, the user and growth and to educate.3 – To form a cyclical building where waste creates beauty, and function allows participation.

Funding

Funding to build this sort of a building; a large and open public space for trade and growth, will require government and public support inorder to produce a society that accepts this building not only as an ‘object’, or stand alone construction in this location, but as a strategy andtypology that can be seen as a prototype on my site.

There are many different strategies that can aid this type of construction, for example the Conservative Government and it’s ‘Big Society’, aswell as many more organizations that focus their time and effort on promoting community and the growth of food in the city. For example:

- Government’s Grow Your Own Revolution

This aims to give support to reduce our dependency on imports, by reforming the EU’s common agricultural and fishing policies.Cross-departmental policy report (Food 2030) aims to support further farmers and community markets to boost consumption of localproduce. This is also driven by the FFLP, a community driven body that aims to promote awareness. (Food For Life Partnership)

- The Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens

A charity that supports and promotes community managed farms, gardens, allotments and other green spaces, creating opportunities forlocal communities to grow. It also tries to empower local people, across the age spectrum, from different backgrounds and abilities, to buildbetter communities, usually in developed areas, and to provide decision makers, funders and the media.

- SHAPE East

A London based program, supported by the Government, to promote a positive influence on the quality of urban design and the builtenvironment, through supporting the professional community, engaging the public and facilitating debate and understanding between thetwo. It supporters (among others) are:The Architect Centre NetworkCABEEnglish HeritagePrivate Trustees

Opposite; a collection of Government strategies and companies who support this, looking at how the ‘Grow Your Own’ can beneft the local urban community in East London

Building Program Permanent Market and New Town SquareA Manifesto for a Local Consumerism Movement

The creation of the new town square at this convergence point in Tower Hamlets is attempting to re awaken community spirit in a ‘forgotten’ area, produce growth in inner city and highly built up areas,improve mental health, and educate about growth and self production. This building is a starting point for the ‘germination’ of the building over the years, so its growth spreads across the communityand local area, ‘making green’ the industrial looking area. For smooth and successful operation of the building, the following facilities will be included:

1. Reception and visitor entranceThe reception and visitors entrance should be easily accessible from the outside open community space around the foot of the building. A natural flow will be created from outside to inside space, with the building gentlyenticing the visitor in with sloped ramps and ease of boundary crossing. In this sense, some of the outside materiality could be bought in, with a green floor leading the way into the building. All the functions of the buildingmust be visible to the visitor, (the movement of the roof, the selling in the market and the growth of the towers). At a certain point, this exterior materiality will trail off, leaving the visitor with the feeling of leaving the outsideand entering the main body of the machine (the market).

2. Co-operative members entranceThe members of the co-operative, also being visitors, but more regular visitors that are an influencing part of the building’s performance and function, are of course not excluded from using the visitor entrance when utilizingthe building. When, though, the members come to the building to tend their sponsored crops, their entrance will take the form of the ramped germination towers or stairs. In this sense they are not leaving the outside of thebuilding, as this area although enclosed, brings the outside in. Visitors can also access this area to view the co-operative members tending their crops.

3. Goods exchange entranceThe goods exchange entrance is purely functional, with home orders being organized from around the building, as well as crops grown by those public members who have bought germinated seeds, grown them on greenspaces around the area, and sold the excess of crop back to the co-operative, enter the building to be sorted, stored and sold within the market. Located more at the back of the building this is a function that will be visible butnot at the forefront, with much of the transportation taking place on bicycles this stream of goods in and out will be visible to those in the open community gardens.

4. Market floor levelThe market floor will be a large open market space with ordered stalls on plots that are purchased by the co-operative members who sell their germinated crops, or the goods that have been grown off site. These market stallswill be ordered to allow the flow of people, as well as allowing each stallholder to enhance and flaunt their performance, with little restriction on how these stalls look. With the differing rings of production that occur aroundthe area encircling my building (dairy, crop, eggs etc….) due to the space available and goods needed, the public will provide this market with the goods, and in return receive points to spend on these goods or on purchasingsome new germinating crops.

5. Tram station and goods distributionA functional and mechanical area of the building, and only accessed by those who work there, (but not invisible to the visitor), this is where goods are distributed from and sent out to areas that can be accessed (close by) bythe tram line integrated into the already existing track infrastructure. A loop of track that runs under the tensile roof and above the market level, the process is intended to be visible and audible to those visiting the market.

6. Germination towersThese towers are not intended to be completely closed off from the exterior conditions of the community landscape, but an intermediate area between the outside and the main market hub of the building. Permeable to the airand views out over the surrounding area, and inversely in from the landscaped area, these towers will be connected from the ground with a continuous slope, leveling off to join with the market floor slab and goods distributionlevel. These towers house a large water storage tank, with water collected from the rain catchers on the roof, the use and path of the water will be visible to those within, highlighting consumption of the building throughout theday. When the germinating crops need watering, pressurized ‘humidifiers’ will create a mist throughout the towers, falling as rain through the building.

7. Goods dry storageWithin the core of the building darker areas and spaces with ventilation will be provided for the early stags of germination as well as those crops that have been grown, transported to the market and stored ready to be sold.Dark rooms with ventilation allowing air in and out as well as a small amount of light at certain times of the day, as well as separation areas for crops with higher ethylene levels.

8. Tools and Equipment storage for usersLockers will be provided for the co-operative members and users of the growing aspects of the building. Storage of cultivating equipment and personal items located on the flat floors where the towers join the market floorplates join, for ease of access from either area.

9. Toilets and utility roomsToilets also located in same area as the storage areas for equipment, for ease of access as well as removing the need to minimize the germination areas in order to fit these in. Grey water and filtered collected rainwater run offwill be used to flush these toilets and for hand washing. Same principle for those toilets located within the main concrete core of the market space. Utility rooms are the areas not accessible by the public, where the pipescarrying water, methane, maintenance hatches for the toilets, pressure pumps etc are located for the complete cyclical functioning of the building.

10. Outside public spaceThe outside area, around the foot of the building and covering the remainder of the site (with the ability to spread throughout the local area), will be landscaped to allow for community gathering, seeking shade within thesummer months, and viewing the functioning of the building. This outside space is key to the building becoming an established, well-used and loved public area.

11. Ability for future development (Gym)Future expansion could include a gym, for use by the people who earn points through growing. Machines could be used to power pumps to pressurize water and gas within the building. Removing the need for any energyconsuming machinery. Also, as outlined within the project’s future scale, the ambition is that this building will mould the landscape surrounding it, with its rings of production, the green landscape within the before more indus-trial and infrastructural aesthetic, will germinate in time. It is also hoped that this will and can be rolled out across similar sites in England as well as over seas.

The below shows how the programme and building function interlinking to show a schematic diagram of this.

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Future Scale of Project

My interests this year are mainly focused on creating a new town square and social interaction space, a prototype typology that can be picked upand implemented in other similar sites across the country and beyond. To bring back the historical significance of the market within our cities,accessibility and creating a new typology that breaks the mould of the current high end, high value one off markets. To create an individualbuilding that can be implemented across a wide range of environments, a sustainable strategy of cyclical processes have to be established TheseRULES will influence and determine the aesthetics of the building, this in fact, becoming secondary to the process.

- Capture and Recycle Rainwater

The capturing of rainwater within the building, and the use of this water throughout the building and its processes, including the watering of thegerminating crop, as well as the cleaning of the floor plates and the use of grey water throughout the building.

Water usage and distribution should become a visible measurement of consuming.

- The Use of Organic Waste for Light

The collection and storage of organic waste within the building to allow the community to dispose of waste easily, as well as allowing them to seethe process of this waste disposal in creating light for the building throughout the hours of darkness. Anaerobic respiration produces methane,which can be passed across plants to produce light in the form of bioluminescence.

Recycling should be used to create spectacle.

- Encourage Awareness/ Education

Encourage people to take part in the processes that happen within the building, the processes determining the presence of the building itself.

Growing should be at close proximity and connect us to nature.

- To strengthen the relationship between the community and the growth of food

Due to the dense urban environment and the increase of commercialization, society is becoming removed from the production of the food theyeat and the processes that take place in order to produce it. My building aims to educate community in these matters.

Growing should be a joy.

- Self Sufficiency

Due to the abundance of commercial goods, and 24 hour convenience society, my project aims to break down these monopolies, and temptpeople back into self production and the happiness of growing, to allow for a new opening in the market, for a community run co operative.

Growing should be a commercial venture.

A collage showing user experience within and surrounding my proposed building. As well as an image trying to consolodate all the project ambitions.

FOOD IN LONDON WOULD RUN OUT IN 4 DAYS IF SUPPLY CEASED..............

A Co-operative scheme, initially funded by the Local Government

Local Government will fund the initial scheme, until which time the community can take over completely. Monetry payback to the Government will be indirece, in the form of a more desirable borough, higher popularity and happiness withint he local area.

Site With Local Typologies

Overall site map showing areas of interest around my site, highlighting the three more prevalent typologies, being industrial, residential and green space. This 1500sqm* aprox site is located by the rail tracks down the lines from Bethnal Green over ground train station. At the convergence point of the rail tracks, parkland, residential and industrial areas, the site provides the historic ingredients for a successful market, located at a place people pass on their way from A to B, without having to go out of their way.The challenges of this site are plentiful, due to the restrictions and demands of building so close to so many different infrastructures, as well as the tight space on site for such a ‘large’ program.These restrictions, though, will allow for a more precise design, taking into account the constraints, but also using them to enhance the building’s response to its locality. The sun and its path will influence the germination towers, and the vibrations its materiality.

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My Site:

Located on the south side of the tracks that cut through East London and the Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is a complex site with many constraints, including the elevated tracks and challenges, some that are listed alongside.

Transport:

Bethnal Green train station is located near to my site. With the train lines running through the area, it provides me with an already established base for the coming and going of people, as well as an urban infrastructure to be harnessed.

Industry:

Historically located on a convergence point of people and transport, this site lives up to the market places of old, usually found on a bridge or some place similar. My site could be seen as a bridge itself, between transport, residential, industrial and speculative production sites.

Playgrounds/Schools:

There are plenty of schools around my site, lending the building’s towards an important and integeral role within the education of people especially the young. Creating a visual building will also aid this process.

Residential/Potential Growing Areas:

These clusters of residential areas are common around the Tower Hamlets area. Dense housing blocks and back to back/terraced housing quite common. These, though, all have either a small green space, or a local green space cloase by.

‘Weavers Fields’:

A historic green space within Tower Hamlets. With a commu-nity Centre tot he left, and courts to teh right of the same name.

Jewish Burial Ground:

A Jewish burial ground is located here. This area has a wide ranging community and a diverse history.

St Anne’s Church

Bicycle Station

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Maintenance of the Building

Access onto roof for maintenance of the roof as well as the rainwater harvesters, is via a fixed ladder from the roof of the concrete core. This should be the most awkward area to access.

Common maintenance jobs include changing crossties (sleepers), lubricating and adjusting switches, tightening loose track components, and surfacing and lin-ing track to keep straight sections straight and curves within maintenance limits. Much of this within the building can be done by hand, and on the main infra-structure, with smaller scale machines in the form of carriages.

Maintenance of toilets and services carried out within the core, with access corridoors designed in behind.

Maintenance of the water tank can be carried out from the main walkway, but at intervals around the tank a fixed ladder will be provided. The fil-ters at the top of the water tank, and the harvest-ers will also have fixed ladders for access.

Cladding upkeep will be minimal due to it being designed to weather and depict time. If it does need replacing or repair, there is space on site for a cherry picker to access the area, (in SE area of plot).

1:100 @ A0

1:100 model showing access hatch to maintenance pit around the base of the water tank, where valves and pipes can be maintained, and sludge can be removed.

Same 1:100 model showing the access hatch onto the roof of the germination tower, allowing for maintenance and emptying of the waste filter for use as mulch for the germination trays.

Maintenance

1:100 model showing access hatch to maintenance pit around the base of the water tank, where valves and pipes can be maintained, and sludge can be removed.

Same 1:100 model showing the access hatch onto the roof of the germination tower, allowing for maintenance and emptying of the waste filter for use as mulch for the germination trays.

Drawn at 1:100 - Plan showing maintenance hatches

I will design accessibility

The tram line and its position will ensure that nobody within the local area will be excluded from participating.

An urban master plan showing the general arrangementof the plan within the wider context, including thetram infrastructure and sprawling ‘germination’ of thebuilding, and wider rings of urban production.

Trams taking germinated grops out to the wider reaches of Tower Hamlets Borough.

Trams bringing an excess of grown goods back to the market to be sold.

Trams bringing back and distributing organic waste for growing and power.

Dairy production where more green space is avaliable.

Dairy pasteurisation.

Chickens kept in slightly larger residential properties as well as communal block grounds for eggs.

Smaller areas avaliable for domestic scale crops that can be grown in 1m sq plot.

Germination of crops at home where space is minimal.

1:500 @ A0

The Master PlanOverall master plan describing access onto site.

Access that is currently open to cars and by foot, under the open arches and by foot only over the tracks and along the footpath next to the train lines.

Access that is currently closed off, that could be opened up as part of my project to create a new town square. These sites are arches under the tracks that are neglected and have no use at the moment. Opening up these will allow for continual and direct access onto the site.

1:500 @ A0

A model at 1:500, showing the circulation paths throughout the building and the surrounding landscaped area. Access points (underneath the arches, the east side next to the arches and behind the existing children’s playground, on the south side of the site at the end of the culdisac, and on the west behind the warehouses), are marked by openings in the model.

The fixed paths people take through the site shown with the white directional strips.The movement of people around the site is represented with thread, moving between the access areas of the buidings.Static congregation withint he core areas of the buildings shown with the cream beads.Congregational areas around the landscaped surroundings of the buildings are shown with clear boxes and flag points.

Using the main access areas and congregational cores of the buildings, the movement of people between these spaces will not only inform the design of the landscaped areas surrounding the buildings, but also by studying the movement and congregation areas logically, access to the building (methods and location) can be designed more carefully to suit public use.

Model @ 1:500

Circulation mapping model

Congregational areas.

The areas marked with the clear boxes show the places where access to the building can be found, as well as where the access area is maybe tighter than the more open areas of the community space, causing the congregation of people.

Access points

Gaps to show the points of access across the site. The areas where there is no access are marked out, as well as the more imperme-able areas of the building design (cores).

Congregation in Buolding

The cores within the towers will be permeable to allow for views within. These will make for breathtaking aspects down and through the ‘interior rainforest’ environment. People will congregate to view. There will also be a congre-gation of people using the storage, circulation and WC facilities. These are shown with the beads on the model

Community Circulation

The circulation of people through the site, the com-munity open landscaped space, as well as through the access points to the building, are shown using the white thread.

The new town square will become a spectacle

In it’s appearance, function, cycle and education the market will excite at all levels.

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1:100 model plan of the germination tower

The building will be designed taking the environment into account.

They will become the driving force behind its orientation, position and cycle. Without the environment, the building will not function.

TYPE 1 - Naturally loamy and clayey soils of coastal flats with naturally high ground water

TYPE 2 - Naturally loamy soils with naturally high ground water

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Acoustics

The positioning of my building, as previously stated, is at the convergence point of many different urban activities, so on site there is an amount of ambient noise from the sur-roundings. This comes from mainly the railway tracks directly behind the building. This noise, though, will be more noticable at peak travel times (for example at rush hours morning and night), and will therefore be a more infrequent and less noticable back-ground noise. There are aso warehouses surrounding the site, so industrial noise will be slightly audible on site, although this noise is quite low and not overpowering, as most industry is light.

Within the building also there are designated areas of interior enclosure in comparison to a large amount of exterior open space. Some spaces also are semi-open spaces. The enclosed area is contained to the inner core of the market building, housing circulation, toilets, storage and spaces for relaxing, and so these need insulating from the noise of the market and surroundings. The market floor and the delivery floor will be mainly open. The trams will be relatively infrequent in comparison to the tracks adjacent, and so will not add too much to this existing infrastructural noise.

Because there is a large amount of residential dwellings around the area, areas eminating larger amounts of noise need to also considder the possibility of having the ability of being shut off to an extent. Sliding louvres will create this barrier at the market level, and a perfo-rated skin to the germinating towers will allow weather in, but minimise noise escaping.

Area of traffice moving under the tracks Areas of Industry near the plotChildren’s play area next door to site

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Areas of complete enclosure

Areas of incomplete enclosure

Black WaterRain WaterGrey Water

Toilets flushed with harvested water

Market and delivery floors cleaned with harvested water

Germinating crops watered with harvested water

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Bioclimatic Design

This type of design attempts to be adapted to its environment, aware of its impact on nature and sensitive to it, as well as trying to minimise environmental pollution.

‘It takes advantage of the surrounding climate and conditions in order to achieve significant re-ductions in energy consumption and to improve the quality of life of the building’s users.’

Bioclimatic architecture seeks to considder:

- Regulating the air flow- Takes advantage of sunlight and the building’s orientation- Uses insulating, recyclable and non-contami-nating materials- Chose the most efficient energy equipment- Includes the use of renewable energy sources within the design.

Torres Agbar - barcelona - Spain

My building aims to fit in with the ethos of bioclimatic architecture by providing a semi-permeable skin to allow for a controlled, but open interior environment to the germination towers. The design incorporates a double skin, interior (movable slatted louvres) and exterior cldding (periodic timber framed celulose skin, with organic growth). - This double skin reduces the building’s temperature as it favours ventilation. - The materials used are generally created from nature, and so can be returned to nature. - Bicycle racks are built into the design to pro-mote non vehicular visitation. - Water is collected and recycled for the use of grey water; toilet flushing, cleaning floors, plant watering etc. - Bio-digesters are used in order to provide the lighting throughout the building.

Above- Images of struc-tural model progression showing the double skin facade system.

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Natural Ventilation

1:100 model of one of the germination towers within my building. Natural ventialtion within this part of my building is important, as the functions of these towers are fully cyclical, so the addition of machinery to cool them will be counter productive, and will mean that the aim of having them completely OFF GRID will not be realised.

As they are towers, the stack effect will take place. The cladding is not all encompassing, and the roof does not act as a sealed cap to the building. The water tank through the centre of the towers will create a cooler environment, due to the volume of unheated water present. With the addition of misting system, opperating every 30 minutes, the at-mosphere will be similar to that of a rainforest, but with the heat and solar gain control of louvred cladding.

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Cooler around the water tank due to less radiation of heat being emitted by the large mass of water.

The area around the building will be kept cooler due to the evapora-tion of water from the growth of the plants, as well as the emphasis of the convection within the heavier misted air.

USERS

Taking into account that the users of the building also demand good air circulation and quality, natural ventilation within the building should provide:

0.5 Litres/second - to not feel drowsy5.0 Litres/second -to prolong concentration8.0 Litres/second - to not smell

Preferably more than this during the GB summer time to keep cool also. This means that, in order to keep ventilation natural, 5% of cladding on on each side of each floor area should be kept as ventilation pannels. On each side of my germination towers, pannels will be kept open and louvre system used to regulate natural ventilation, with these single sided areas left ‘open’, the ventilating air can penetrate up to 6m into the building. At the deepest part of the barrel shaped tower, this design means that air penetrates right to the water tank, and so users will always be under the influence of natural ventilation.

MARKET

Utilising the prevailing wind on site, my building can be cooled naturally, saving the need for machinery and artificial air cir-culation throughout the enclosed spaces. The large floor plates allow for the movement of air throughout, but do come with the option of sliding louvres on the market floor to limit the tunnelling effect on windy days.

GERMINATION

The germination towers will have more permeable cladding on the SE side where the prevailing wind hits my site. This will benefit the germination process within the building, by allow-ing a more natural environment inside.

Solar Design

My building is situated amongst a dense urban fabric, but as my structure is quite big, and will tower above many of the surrounding buildings, this shouldn’t cut down on the amount of natural light entering the building. (Needed to lower energy wasted as well as for growth). As the tracks are the only big obstruction to the sun, these are situated to the North of the building, and so does not limit the maximum amount of daylight sun that will be allowed to enter the GERMINATION TOWERS, as well as the MARKET floors throughout operational hours. When the space becomes more dominated by performance, BIOILLUMINESCENCE will be used to light the space.

A DAYLIGHT FACTOR of 6% will be aimed for within the towers and the flat open market floor spaces.A range of 100 LUX (very overcast dark day) to 23,000 LUX (direct sunlight) will be aimed for within the germination towers, as maximum light for growth and ability to tend is essential.

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Intricate louvres above head in the towers to allow for shading at the hottest part of the day, for visitors as well as for the crop. Too much heat dries out soil and the environment would become uncomfortably umid for visitirs and co-operative members.(Nasher Sculpture Centre - Houston - Texas by Interloop Architecure)

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1:100 model showing the double layer cladding and the sun access into the germination towers. Taken at 15:00pm in April, the light is still penetrating quite deep into the building. The germination trays that protrude out of the skin of the buildingwill get more light morning and late afternoon, and those deeper throughout the middle hours of the day when the sun is at its highest..

Pest ControlPest control is at least as old as agriculture. Crops and goods have always needed to be kept away from pests for best cropresults, it has always been advantageous to protect crops from competing species of plants, as well as from herbivores compe ting for ‘our’ food.

Due to a move from poisons and killing, to humaine pest control in the UK, slaughter, selective breed-ing of pestsresistant crops, or poinson is becoming less popular and less likely to be the first port of call. The use of ‘animal psychology’is becoming more prevalent.

Chemical pesticides date back at least 4500 years, with the book ‘Rig Veda’ being 4000 years old, which mentions the useof poisonous crop for pest control.

Humans cause the greater numbers of pests. Changing our behaviour can greatly imporve these effects. Evolution createstollerances to chemicals, so without extermanating an entire species, attitudes need to change.

TYPES:

BIOLOGICALControl through the control and management of natural preditors. For example, mosquitos combatted byputting a bacterium that kills larvae in local water sources, that does not effect people or the water ecology.This eliminates the pest with minimal harm to the ecological balance of the environment.

ELIMINATION OF BREEDING GROUNDSThis includes a change of attitude and human practice. Including the storage and depositing of waste managementas well as the drainage of still water.

POISONED BAITThis is common for rat population, however when other food sources are present, this is arbetry. Also usedin baited meat to control birds, cattepillars, fruit flies, snails, slugs, crabs etc.....

FIELD BURNINGOnce a crop has been harvested, fields or growing planes are burnt to kill off any remaining pests.

HUNTINGHistoriacally people have hunted animals in order to keep numbers down. Rat catchers used to chase them out of the fields and kill them with dogs andbattons. In history, some communities hve employed a bounty system - a fee placed on every rat head presented.

TRAPSSpecific traps are used for different pests and different areas. For example traps for residential areas are quite specific and mainly for rodents:snap traps - to killsticky traps - humaine trapping and killlive catch traps - humaine release

POISONOUS SPRAYThis is usually distributed by planes and over a large and troublesome area, for examplewhen trying to combat locusts. Hand held units are used for more localised breakouts.

NATURAL RODENT CONTROLThis is the use of preditors to keep pest numbers down. When exclusion isintroduced and preditor support is introduced, there is no need for poison or lesshumaine or more ‘unnatural’ methods.

THIS IS THE METHOD I WILL USE WITHIN MY BUILDING:

STORAGE

Darker and cooler areas within the core of the building will be provided for thestorage ofthe seeds ready to germinate, as well as those waiting to be distributed/goods collected from surrounding green areas. Cooler temperatures and dry conditions limit growth of alreadygerminated seeds, and prevents the germination of the seeds. Natural ventilation and con-trolleddaylight entry into these spaces will be designed.

CATS

Historicaly cats have been used as a form of pest control within dense townsand cities. Rats and mice have been kept under control using cats for yearsand it is this that I propose is used within my building. Due to a low level of wastebut a high level of organic matter and crop, warmer areas will be provided, aswell as food for the rodents. A small community of cats, looked after by the co-operativewill be present.

BIRD PEST CONTROL

Pigeons, strlings and gulls are some of the many birds that occurin certain places at very high numbers; at power stations, landfill sites,hotels and town squares are some of the few. Hawks and Falcons are used to control the ‘pests’ through continuous flying.

In Trafalgar Square for example, hawks have bought the transientcommunity of pigeons down from 5,000 to 1,000.

Pigeons and sea gulls can force entry into buildings, under roofs,allowing water ingress into the building. Rain water movement can also be blocked due to a buildup of feaces and detritus. Pigeons are renouned for this and their feaces are a health hazard too.

SEAGULLS

Herring gulls along with black headed gulls, greater black headed gulls,lesser black headed gulls, have always proven a nuisance andenvironmental health problem in built up places or places of industry.At land fill sites, flocks can cause health hazards. They become agressiveand territorial during nesting, and can attack humans if they get too close to the eggs. They raise one brood a year with an average of three eggs, and incubation from 20 to 24 days. They eat almost anything.

STARLING

The starling can become a serious problem in large numbers. In an ur-ban environment, numbers can swell, especially in the city, when birds seek warmth in the winter months.

THE FERRAL PIGEON

Well adapted to survive in a modern city, where buildings provide shel-ter and habitats similar to their native rock/cliff homes. Derrived fromdomestic stock of racing and ornamental birds that have escaped. Twoeggs are laid and incubation is shared, with three broods per pair perseason. Their natural diet is seeds, but the city dwellers will eat anything left for them by man. They are carriers of Pseudo Tuberculosis, Pist-tacosis, and Salmonellosis - infection risk is low but severe if caught.

Maintenance routines hindered due to faeces build up on ledges, mak-ing it slipery and toxic.

Hawks and Falcons scare off pigeons and deter them from returning.

Sometimes Kites are used also.

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I will design a cyclical building

Nothing is lost or waster, all is channelled into the creation and growth of a thriving market and town square.

Organic Waste

Access underground via a manhole and fixed ladder to maintain and access the bio-digester

The Bio-digester enabling an-aero-big digestion to occur to produce methane.

Chambers to hold the bio gas (methane) under pressure.

Methane passed over the biolumes-cent midro organisms to produce a glowing light.

A diagram showing the process and path of methane through my building to produce the light for the market to function throughout the hours of darkness.

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Bioluminesent Lighting

Bioluminesence is the term used for the production as well as emission of light from a living organism. The term is a hybrid, coming from the Greek words for ‘bios’ meaning life, and ‘lumen’ for light. This light emission is termed as ‘cold light’, as less than 20% of the light emitted generates thermal radiation. 90% of deep sea marine life, as well as many species of organic marine microbes, have this quality.

In nature this bioluminesence is used for many different reasons. Within the animal/fish kingdoms, it is usually one of the following; - Counterillumination camouflage - Repulsion - Attraction - Illumination

The Philips cyclical system uses a bioluminesent bacteria that, when methane from anaerobic digesers is passed through them, they illuminate. The chemical reaction between the enzyme Luciferase and the light emiting mol-ecule Luciferin, on contact with Methane is what produces the glow.

My building, seen as a living and growing organism in its own right, will be using the same technology to provide light for after darkfall. Not only will this light become a visual indication of the building’s processes, producing light from waste using bio digestors filled with the local community’s organic waste. But also, as in nature, to attract the public, not only as a feature, but also as a beacon to the market being open after the usual market hours.

The main market building, as shown in the sectional diagram on the previous page, will have a biodigester, where organic waste from the local community (in exchange for membership points), and the organic waste from the mar-ket and from the germination process, will be deposited. These biodigesters allow for anaerobic digesters to break down the waste into compost, releasing methane gas. This gas, under pressure, will be piped through the building, through see through pipes, to the bioluminesent lights distributed throughout the open floor plates.

Source - Philips Microbial Home - The ‘Bio-Light’

Source - Philips Microbial Home - The ‘Bio Light’ Angler Fish

Pipe from main underground bio-digester, that runs through all floors of the market, within the core. This then branches off on each floor.

Post tensioned concrete with steel cables running through

Individual gas storage vat for each cluster of lights. Pressure builds up in here and pushes the bio-gas through the pipes to the lights. The pipes have a small diameter in order to keep the presure as high as possible, so as to produce a more intense light for longer.

Thin pipes fastened to steel spine post to carry the gas to the lights along the supporting truss arm structures.

Bioluminesent manufactured ‘bulbs’, containing the bacteria, are strung from the supporting truss arms. The bio-gas, containing methane, passes across the bacteria, producing light.

Supporting steel truss arm, sup-porting the bacteria filled ‘bulbs’ are suspended from this, and hang at high level above the heads of the visitors to the building.

The supporting truss arms slot into the steel spine by sliding through the runners. This allows not only for future re-configurations, but also al-lowes for easier maintenance, as it can be removed easily, fixed and returned using simple machinery such as a cherry picker.

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Organic Waste Biology

Water Supply

Black WaterRain WaterGrey Water

Toilets flushed with harvested water

Market and delivery floors cleaned with harvested water

Germinating crops watered with harvested water

Source - The Met Office

Table detailing percent of average rainfall throughout the UK including anomolies within the year of 2011. The lower levels of rainfall throughout the South East of England last year (emphasising the need for a hosepipe ban this summer) backs up the theory that we need to capture and recycle as much of the natural environment as possible,

Source - The Met Office

Year 2001 rainfall amounts throughout England. the percentage of the National average rainfall shown to have fallen within the London area is around 125-135%.

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London annual precipitation

Growth to regulate temperature of harvested water

Water fed through vortex

Debris collector and manual extraction for use as fertiliser

Water path to tank uninterrupted

Within my germnation towers, I will be using two commercially viable and well used pieces of equipment, in order to filter and (if needs be, pump) the water around the towers. These are:

WISY Vortex Filter (WFF150)[This filter is for a roof up to 500 m2 in surface area]- It minimises the need for maintenance- Has a 0.28mm filter suitable for WC’s and also good quality irriga-tion water- Has no restriction or obstruction of the water flow

Radisson SAS hotel in Berlin Mitte -

Designed by: International Concept ManagementConstructed by: Reynolds Polymer Technology

The outside cylinder was manufactured on site from 4 pieces and the inside cylinder was delivered onto site already constructed in one piece.

With a diameter of aproximately 11m, and a height of 25m, it contains roughly 1,000,000 litres of water.

It contains over 1,500 fish of 50 differing species, and divers clen it betwen 3 and 4 times a day. Visitors can take the lift through the middle of the tank.

1:100 model showing the cylindrical water tank throughout the centre of the germination towers. This tank measures 25m tall and 5m in diameter with an overall volume of aproximately 491m3.

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The germination towers within the design of the build-ing have incorporated within, a large water tank stretch-ing the height of the building. This tank collects the rain water from the catchers on the roof, and stored the water to supply the gravity fed misting system within the towers. This mist waters the germinating crops at designated intervals depending on the time of year.

The construction of this tank, although originally thought to be steel, could be completely transparent. As a president, the Radisson SAS Hotel in Berlin has achieved the task of containing large volumes of water elegantly, as well as allowing the visitors to the building to be interactive as well as view the water. The water within my towers are a visible marker of consumption and growth, and the ability to see this as a visitor, user and co-operative member is key to the ethos my build-ing tries to maintain.

The construction of this water tank is complex. Many stages need to be followed in order to construct the tanks.

- The glass needs to be thick to resist the pressure of the large volume of water.- The steel structure surrounding my tanks, to allow for the ramp to be hung, needs constructing after the tank itself.- The foundations or props of the tank need to with-stand the weight of the water.- A viewing platform is to be constructed on the top of the tank.- Small metal ‘hoses’ are to interrupt the tank in order to provide the gravity fed misting system.

The above also relates directly to the construction con-sidderations of my tanks.

Water Tank

The above calculations are showing the minimum sizes of the tanks to just meet the requirements of the building, just taking into account WC’s. The minimum storage size of the tank within my building is 5.273m3 between the two towers. As noted, though, my gravity fed system relies on vol-ume of water collectd to create the pressure to allow the ‘rain’ within the tower, as well as flushing for WC’s. The core of each tower is therefore a tank, that becomes a visual feature of the building, as well as building up pressure and volume of water, for times of low amounts of rain and to allow the gravity system to function without the addition of power. The size of the tank I have designed is 25m tall and 5m diameter down the centre of each tower.

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Height - 25mDiameter - 5mVolume - 491m3 / 491,000 Litres storage capacity within each of the core tanks.

Due to having to plan for the eventuality of little rain and the storage water being used up to the point where a gravity fed ystem will no longer work, a suction pump and secondary power source needs to be factored in for these times of drought and low rain yield.

WISY Floating Suction[For times when water stored is at low evels]- It extracts the cleanest water from just under the surface- The filter floats below a polyeurathene ball and incorporates an integral non-return valve

This pump will discreatly sit just below the eater line of the tank, and in the eventuality the water datum is lower than the system reuires, the pump can be bought in to use the dregs of the tank and create enough pressure for it to be used through the watering system.

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Water Tank Design

I will design a prototype for future markets

The germination market and system for growth and urban production can be rolled out across London and further. Tower Hamlets will become a prototype for a Commercialism Revolution.

Prototype 1

Prototype 1 allows the producer and cooperative member to be in control of the packaging of his/her germinated seeds. This reduces waste and increases the use of re-usable and bio-degradable materials.

Maket Stall 1

Reduce waste and promote re-use

Market Stall Level

Maket Stall 1Prototype 1

Prototype 1 will be constructed from found and recycled materials that the member can construct themselves. The main structure will be provided, but the rest of the attachements will be down to the stall owner.

This not only enables people to become more involved in the growing ans selling of their goods, creating passion amongst the community, it also keeps the costs down, allowing anyone to participate. The Sewer Light

Located on Carting Lane, The Strands, London. This is the last gas lamp in London powered by the gas that is produced from the sweage that runs below the streets. It burns constantly.

The lights on this stall will be run by or-ganic waste light.

Paper Cones

Hand made paper cones will provide the packaging for the germinated seeds. This paper can be recycled, or bought back to the market and used again. This way, soil and seeds can be transported together.

Pleated Fabric

Pleated fabric will be used for the canopy. This can be opened when the stall is open for business, creating an intimacy between the stall holder and the customer. Each stall will then be-come individual with its own charm.

Ironing Table Tops

Ironing tables can be used by the vendor to expand the surface on the stall for rinsing and preparing the seeds for sale. They can be folded away when trading stops.

Brass Bath

From reclaim yards, a steel bath can be used for the main body of the market stall. This allowes also for a dark and cool environment for storage of germinated seeds ready for sale.

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1 - Harvested water supply2 - Biogas lamp3 - Composting tray4 - Foldable legs5 - Open and close canopy6 - Stall holder/ co-operative member

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Prototype 2

Prototype 2 is a vehicle for washing and preparing fully grown goods. It aims to promote food education by becoming a convenient market food to take away and provide a slow alternative to fast food.

Maket Stall 2

Education of ‘slow food’

Market Stall Level

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1 - Harvested water supply2 - Biogas lamp3 - Sinks4 - Foldable legs5 - Composting box under sink6 - Stall holder/ community members

     

   

Prototype 2

Prototype 2 will be hand crafter by the volunteers working on the market and the co-operative scheme overall. From found bits and made pieces, this market stall is designed to be movable and interractive.

It has a small footprint on the market floor, meaning more people can have a space to trade, but has a larger surface area so that the washing and selling of ‘slow food’ can take place as fast as the demand. Water from the harvesters will be used in the ‘sinks’. People who visit the market can also use the sinks for hand washing, with the ability to pull them down and round to suit.

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Fiburnacci System for Growth

The system I designed within the initial 6 designs for the zoetrope demonstrates the theory behaind the market stall design opposite.

Maximum area with minimum footprint.

Mechanical Movement

Movement is provided with these steel arms that allow for the layers to be rotated.

Hand Carved Wood

Allows for an ergonomic design and therefore use of the movable stall. Education and crafting with the hands is an interactive way for the local community to get involved.

Prototype 3

Prototype 3 is a trading stall for seeds and newly germinated seed-lings. This stall not only provides the seeds, (to be swapped for other seeds or fully grown crops), but also educational material and advice on how to grow at home.

Maket Stall 3

Seed Bank - Trading of Germinated Seeds

Market Stall Level

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1 - Harvested water supply2 - Biogas lamp3 - Sign4 - Supports5 - seed/seedling library draws6 - Hinged case

Prototype 3

Prototype 2 will be a travelling and portable stall for the education and learning of the local com-munity. It will also act as an interface between the market vendor and grower, and the local com-munity. With hands on experience and face to face discussions with a grower, this stall acts as a seedling library.

It takes the form of a case. Encased within are specimen draws containing the seeds and seed-lings in the dark so as to not promote too much growth before they can be sold or swapped.

The cases will be provided by the co-operative, but selection of seeds and seedlings will be down to the vendor themselves.

Maket Stall 3

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Germination

Germination of seeds can be started on a damp pad with a plastic cone surrounding them to keep humidity high. This method, as well as slowing the germinated seedings down by keeping them in a dark environment, can be used within this education stall.

Hinged Case

The hinged case, that makes it trans-portable, can be old used suitcases and trunks, cheap or unwanted, can be put to use as carriers for the seed library.

As they hinge open, the draws can fold out from the cantr, allowing for the opposite configuration.6

Germination Trays

The germination trays and the towers themselves are there to provide an environment for growth within a dense urban area. To bring back a system and prototype for growth to the city. To create excitement about growth and en education to the surrounding community, and to reduce consumerism and the need for importing fresh food.

Germination Trays

Local Urban Growth, Environment and Reduction of Consumerism

Germination Tower

Source; Tiny Farm Blog

Source; Wikipedia (Germination)

As the images of the germination trays show to the right, long lines of germination can take place over a relitively small surface area. As the market and these towers aims to re-awaken people to the joy of grow-ing to produce, the need for large amounts of space to grow full sized fruit and vegetables is besides the point. Germination and the start of growth is the time frame that the towers focus on, and educating people on how to start the growing process.

My towers aim to create an environment, with the growing trays following the continuous ramp both nex to the water tank, as well as on the outide of the ramp, with the ability of trays needing more direct sunlight, to penetrate the cladding layers.

If the germination of certain seeds need a more humid and warm environment than that can be accommodated within the tower environment, small glass or perspex cones can be placed over them, allowing a micro-environent to be created to suit the plant’s needs.

Model @ 1:100

Building Envelope Section (Overall)Detail @ 1:20

Kinetic fan roof

The fan roof is a kinetic spectacular that adds to the excitement of the market experience. It purpose is not only to cover the market to protect it from the weather, but also to enhance the weather, sun and shade to the surrounding community area and germinating towers.

The Fan Roof

An environment manipulating kinetic roof

Kinetic Roof

A Manifesto for a Local Consumerism Movement

A Collage showing the conditions and ambitions of my project. From the market stall level, to themovable louvre roof of the main structure, allowing light access at the coller times of the day, blockingthe midday sun. The germination towers eminate a mist from the pressurised water used to water thegerminating crops, creating an atmosphere that blankets the whole sceme, as well as the viewer havinga knowledge of the functions that happen within. The area surrounding the scheme will become a communalpublic space, where building function is visible, as well as a sun shade for the public below.

A collage showing the view of the building in AUTUMN at around 10AM from the landscaped area below. The building itself becoming quite a presence when the greenery receeds during the cooler months. On the other hand, during SPRING and SUMMER, the building grows, flourishing with greenery and life. The communal landscaped area below open to the public all year.

A representation of the function of the water harvesters. The protrude from the roofs of the towers and the market building, uninhibited or obstructed by any of the building, in order to capture as much rain water as possible. This will be used for; - watering (misting) the germinating seeds- Cleaning of the market floor- Grey water use within the building

A representation of the kinetic roof. This roof not only covers the market and the tram sta-tion within the building, but influences , casts shadows and intensifies the sun on the sur-rounding landscape and germination towers throughout the day.

The germination towers, here showing less groth during the cooler months, will grow over the seasons as production increases and demand in the market also heightens. The towers will swell with greenery and growth, producing a fluctuating building throughout the yearly cycle.

A collage showing the view of the building in LATE SPRING at around 10AM from the landscaped area below. The germination towers are abundant with seedlings and the landscaped area is blooming with planted trees and community allotments.

Monthly Growth

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See 1:100 Sectional Model

Concrete Map

The cast concrete floor of the market and tram trading levels has imprinted on its surface a map of the loacl area, including the building and it’s site at it’s centre. This not only allowes the community from the area to recognise the area, and create interest in the market designed and tailored to them, (spotting landmarks and their house) but also creates a more SPECTACULAR environment for trading.

Concrete Floor

Site Mapping - The familiarity of Local

Trading Floor and Tram Station

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See 1:100 Sectional Model

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Market Floor - mapping ownership and participation

Below are the designs for the section of market building that I am modeling within the 1:100 sectional model. In reality, this engraving would stretch the whole of the market floor and tram trading level also.

The characters that feature in the reasons why this building would benefit the local community feature below, with their houses marked on the map and their role in the market highlighted. This interraction and visual means of making the connec-tions, makes the whole experience interesting and different for the local visitor.

Owns two germination trays.

Buys seeds at the market to grow at home and sells fully grown veg to neighbours

Swaps germinating seeds at the seed bank and sells them on at market.

Sells his home grown cabbage at market and trades with the tram system so that the wider com-munity can have his cabbage in exchange for their organic waste for him to grow with.

Structural Strategy

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Primary Roof Structure

Secondary Folding RoofStructure

Pre-cast / Post-tensionedconcrete floor slabs and

core

Tensioned cables and props for cantilevered

primary roof

Outside community space

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Outside community space

Core ten continuous sus-pended ramp

High pressured water pipes/humidifiers to water

germinating plants

Primary structure and cladding around the cen-

tral water tank core

Steel frame structure, similar to thoat of a crane, the arms joint inthe center with a weight pulling down in the centre. Props on the steel collar and joint to the concrete core even out the loads in order to support the long cantilevering arms.

A roof layer will be attached to this roof structure, with timber louvres that can be ‘drawn’ like a cur-tain between the cantilevering arms when the sun and heat gets too intense, or if it rains. A motor will power this movement.

Concrete, cast off site and transported onto site by train, and craned in, allow for large open spaces on each floor. Polished concrete on the floor plate al-low for an etched design of the area and production rings as a feature and a narrative for the building.

These tension cables serve as the visual structure of the building to the visitor. The mechanics of the building add to the experience of the building, with the poetic language of the floor spaces working together with obviously visual structure.

A Landscaped and undulating area with access to certain areas of the underside of the landscaping at its corners. This area will act as a community outdoor space and over time will become planted up with shrubbery and trees.

A Landscaped and undulating area with access to certain areas of the underside of the landscaping at its corners. This area will act as a community outdoor space and over time will become planted up with shrubbery and trees.

A continuous ramp works its way through the building to allow for viewpoints through the complete height of the structure. Made of core Ten, with a puched treat, water can drain through the surface people walk on to reduce slippage. Core ten will also map growth and rust as time goes on. A core for WC’s and additional stair access.

Copper pipes weave their way around the central water tank, pierced with pin sized holes, the water at pressure creates a watering system.

A primary structure of steel frame parabole, a similar system to that of the Gherkin, will become the main structure, with a secondary cladding frame system humg off this primary structure, with natural latex cladding.

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10 Comparisons to a TYPICAL market of 2012

Comparisons to a ‘NORMAL’ market

My Design A ‘NORMAL’

1 The visual ‘feeding’ of the market and local community from the germinating towers creating a visual link between growth and food.

Growth happens off site, and reliance on labelling to tell the public where and when the pro-duce was grown.

2 My market gives the local community a sense of interraction and ownership over the market. Interraction of the local community, unless market holders or suppliers off site, is minimal, and rarely direct.

3 The creation of a ‘town square’ allowing the community to become fully interractive in the scheme, whether that be in growing, visiting or using the community landscape.

The loss of the town square has happened over the years, with the shrinking of the cantral town market with local affordable produce.

4 All ages and races within the diverse borough are working towards a common aim for each other.

The market is generally there for profit for he supplier and vendor.

5 It will become a centre for education - for people to learn how to grow within an inner city environment where space and land is at a premium.

A perminant and routed market that is specific to the local community is rare and is taken more at face value in today’s busy town environment due to its inpermanence.

6 It will aim, over time, to ‘foliage’ the city increasingly. The area surrounding slowly becoming greener, and the building and scheme leaving its mark on the borough.

Markets generally sell to the locals who happen to pass by. THey do not educate and inspire to grow for our own benefit.

7 People will be involved in the full cycle of the market, from growth to waste and the trading of the both.

Only the end result is generally noticed.

8 The tram line ‘hub and spoke’ system allowing wider access to those less able to access the town square.

A permanent infrastructure is rarely integrated, meaning limited accessibility is generally provided for.

9 A prototype scheme that can be replicated on similar sites across europe. The market is a one off, with its plan and running learnt from history.

10 Creates a unique landmark for an otherwise forgotten area of East London. Markets used to be a landmark and a place to meet and socialise, now they are a place where artisan goods can be bought for those who happen to be passing.

Culture takes 7 YEARS to manifest itself within a new setting. This building will grow under local Government until such time culture for growing and selling in this maner thrives independantly.