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Brooklyn Naval Yards, the historical site of the famous Wallabout Market. Sitting on a raised ‘false hill’ the project proposes replacing the language of signs and branding with architectural zones. Visitors are taken on a journey through the tower, exploring local produce as the architecture combines with food production methods, framing its colours, textures and smells. Using an AutoStore system, robotic containers weave a choreography across the main atrium, carrying produce to be collected at the end of the route.
BSc Architecture UG4
Fig. 4.22 Iman Raisa Datoo Y2, ‘The Curtain Twitching Courthouse’. Derived from a term-long study of Levittown, the courthouse provides a venue for the resolution of domestic disputes in Levittown, PA. Inspired by news stories of gnome shootings, as well as the history of Levittown as a Sears Catalogue kit of parts, the project plays with the scale and symbolism of the surrounding suburban community. Referencing the work of designers such as Ettore Sottsass, the project proposes an architecture that slips between image and reality, like a building bought from a catalogue, providing a new landmark for a place with no centre. Figs. 4.23 – 4.25 Priscilla Wong Y3, ‘The Hungry Hippodrome’. The project challenges the horizontal typology of the contemporary supermarket, proposing a monumental temple to food in the
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