I am designing a set of fashion houses in the Truman brewery in brick lane. On exploring the site and its context I became aware of the textiles around the site. It is becoming a very fashion conscious place. These fashion houses will be rented plots. They are pre made ‘sets’ which are adaptable at each plot. The fashion houses work with an existing programme (fashion shows, which occur throughout the year) in my site. A catwalk will be a permanent installation, which will act as a catwalk and a walkway to the fashion houses when shows are not on, creating a circulation route. I want to create this street (catwalk) which you can venture on to visit the fashion houses and when there is a show the plots can be dismantled to be used as viewing stations for the fashion shows. My key intentions now are access and circulation and designing an entrance into the site. All this will be sympathetic to the building and appealing to the public.
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I am interested to know more about your key intentions for the access, how will you create this? How would you make it appealing to the public? and adaptable...
My key intentions for the access are designing a beautiful entrance where a staircase is wrapped around a lift. Im creating a feature out of the access,I want to draw attention to this access. People are very unaware when walking past the truman brewery of what actually occurs on the first floor. By creating a point of interest I hope to entice people in to my space. I want the entrance to be cut into the building and very open so you can see from inside out. When the stairs wrap around they will protrude through the wall engaging with the street.
Sarah’s notes from 19th April session for Dominie
Portobello of the Millennium -
Interchangeable catwalk/conveyor belt interlinking artist studios and sales shops. Private & Public Spaces
Outside the building -
How do you entice people at ground level to come in? We talked about TV screen (s) split ? – people can make decisions/have choices as to whether they enter the space – can see if the space is busy or quiet and or what it is being used for at any one time i.e what’s currently on the conveyor belt?
Lift & stair shaft -
is an important precursor to a visit to the space and this experience may determine whether people come again. What is the synergy in and around the lift shaft passing up through the enclosing staircase…….a means to delight and equalise and ‘inform’
Perhaps some sort of audio/pod cast as information about the building ‘set up’ and or timetable for when artists/makers are showing on the belt… to let people know the set up in the space and then out of lift and into the space/onto the catwalk….
Other considerations - considering light, those people who need rest/stop spaces, seating, time-out etc and or those with young children who want to buy – we talked about a ‘play space’
Light - lighting sensitivities…cat eyes – light up + natural light cascading down from the windows above (tho’ refurbed)
Materials Shades that hang down heat and warmth: kinaesthetics and messages of barriers to show when makers are in ‘making’ mode when they need to be alone and ‘open’ drapes pulled back and/or see thru to show ‘maker at work’. but nb health and safety and young children and/or people leaning on fragile thin barriers. Solution: taut really soft screen mosquito-like or not like the softness – public & private space box made of plywood: light and easy to dismantle
Conveyor belt – very novel and lots of potential. Sitting space and/or play space - playful and fun – selling maker’s products like sushi. Need to make a decision whether the best goes into the makers spaces and how you attach wares to the belt….nb security
Bolt your products on - conveyor fun. What about a bid process. Think how you would see, enquire & purchase makers’ products. Could you have a live description of artists statement/way of working then products on the conveyor belt. Industry-feel of conveyor belt resonates strongly with the original usage of the building. NB some research into changing functionality: belt for makers and belt for fashion show? How could they be interchangeable.
Food & Café– we discussed whether it was necessary to have this on site and really felt that no as so much available outside – could you develop advertising in the local café/bars for the makers space so that they would take their smoothie, juice, ccinos on site….
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