RESEARCH MAJOR PROJECT PROPOSAL
Queen Victoria Market is Melbourne’s iconic marketplace. It plays a vital part of Melbourne’s multicultural history and present-day life. It has been there for 140years. It is an open air market that located in the city. it is a great place to discover fresh foods, fruits, hand-made products, great coffee, souvenirs and clothing.
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Shopping at the Market has always been one of life’s great pleasures and experience, especially in an open air. The experience of visiting the place, it’s the friendly banter with the traders, the vibrant and multicultural atmosphere, the special events and festivals, and the sense of belonging that comes with it. It is a place where all type of people from different nations come to meet friends, explore and do their day-to-day-shopping. There are variety of society that prompts regionally, nationally and globally.
The project aims connect people to the space and allow interaction.Â
I start looking at the movement that happened in the market and collage them together to identify the site situations that happen every day such as people buy and sell goods, walking, standing, sitting and some sellers hanging goods from the roof. Different sites have different situation and movement that take place. I want to design an intervention that provoke all type of people from different background to use the space in a positive exchanges and interact with one another in a social space. I want the space to be where people can social, play and use the space in a positive manner.
i want to create a new shopping experience in the market for both local and tourist. I start to trace the movement and site area that I consider to do more design exploration and materials to experiment on it. Some new materials that prompt movement should be transit in the site for semester 2. I have think about how people will encounter through the sustainable design as respond to sustainable site condition.
Precedent
LUO Studio designs recyclable shed to house Chinese marketplace.
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Dezeen, 2020. LUO Studio designs recyclable shed to house Chinese marketplace.
Available at: https://www.dezeen.com/2019/09/06/luo-studio-shengli-market-recyclable-architecture-china/.