Continued from Project4 in which I researched on intimacy narrowness and lives of street vendors in front of shophouses, the design proposal was created in order to provide a new and erotic experience for not only the vendors but also the suppliers of the ingredients for their portable stores, in this case, noodle carts. This design proposal should be able to fit into any shophouse around Bangkok and create a new typology for shophouse.
The concept is still "narrowness", back in Project3, I decided to divide shophouse into 3 narrow parts of roughly 1.33 metres from 4.00 metres and this proposal is making it even narrower. Narrowness can be on human's scale too and this narrowness "forces" to users to interact each other by either avoiding touching one another or have a chat and share the same space doing the same activities.
Axonometric Drawing showing circulation, activities and details of the ingredients provided
The shophouse will have two different stages for the users; loading and unloading. The suppliers will arrive at this place before hand to start distributing the ingredients into trays and containers on the second floor. The cart vendors who rented this place then will grab their carts and start collecting the ingredients and then proceed to get their business ready.
3rd Floor: Where the carts are parked and also where to gather fresh water to boil as a soup later. Those who grabbed their cart can go downstairs by using the elevator on the facade which can fit one cart at a time down to the second floor.
The elevators use a pulley system
The 2nd floor is where majority of the narrowness activity occurs because there will be both the vendors and the suppliers inside, making them start interacting to create an erotic; affective atmosphere.
Interior view of the 2nd floor there is also elevator on the back of the shophouse so the vendors can go downstairs to the ground floor.
Off to business.
This is a revision of Project4's site analysis with additions of context examples for the design proposal. This is what ought to be after the design is applied.
Soi Sitthichai is a small scale vendor community but is a very busy one
Saphan Kwai intersection road on the other hand is much larger as it is close to a major road , more numbers of design proposal could be applied for even broader spread of the typology.
From the critics: this design is at a very manageable level and will only need a few adjustments for it to become applicable. It is quite erotic but almost lost connection to the past concept back in Project2.
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