Thu Tha's shophouse research: The Use of Front Space

My process on building the physical model

First, building the structure

Adding the floors

Lastly the walls

Here is a clip of myself putting the models together

 

For the research, I decided to research about how different shops use the space in front of the shophouses in order to sell or advertise their product or business.

Here is a few example that I found.

My Animation

 For my animation, I showed how my physical model of the shophouse was build, then zoom in to the front of the shophouse and show how the space in front was use by different types of shops such as restaurant, comic, clothes and barber shop. Also I tried to show the circulation of people entering the shop through out the day starting from when it was open until it is close. Lastly, I lined all the shops up to make a street and showing the different times each shop opens or close. Here you can see the contrast between when the shop was open and close and how the space in front was used impermanently.