Design Brief:
The aim of the market place is to provide a new vibrant quarter for Dundee with a sense of Community and Character
The market will be a visible, open space so that the community can see the daily events and feel invited towards it.
The market will introduce a stronger connection to the river and the riverside walk. It will enrich this area and also enhance the proposed V&A project which is adjacent.
The amenities will provide a unique and attractive place which Dundee does not Currently have.
Dundee's main thoroughfare currently consists of sterile, un-friendly chain stores.
The marketplace will provide a unique experience for dundee of quality fresh foods & services and an area where outdoor/street events can take place, this will provide a hub of activity beside the V&A which will open up the waterfront which is currently segregated from the Dundee centre.
Moore St. Dublin-Precedence
The fact of the site is that it is essentially a pedestrian area but it is completely segregated from the town centre and the real pedestrian vista's by a very busy dual carrigeway road.
How do i create a marriage between pedestrian and vehicular traffic?By creating an outdoor cinema it will change the ideals of the car from an A-B, busy lifestyle, time saving machine back to a social machine, by re-creating those scenes from old classic movies of people socialising at outdoor cinemas etc. The idea is to romanticise car use.
This will also serve as the dual use option and the covered area which includes bar's, cafe;s etc. will be a social meeting place before and after screenings. The stage for the screen may also be used during the day time for theatre and other events.
Flexible outdoor screen in sydney with a similar dramatic waterfront backdrop
Timber is the main material to be used structurally. Due to the historic shipping nature of the waterfront I looked to the craft of ship and boat building to inform the design.
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