POD DESIGN OPTIMIZATION The focus for this project was to provide local vendors with customizable work and market spaces to best fit their needs to maximize the potential for success. The program of the building included open market areas as well as closed market pods to ensure each vendor was best suited for their product and business capacity. The open market consisted of table booths for vendors, while the pods offered more diversity in options. The pods came in 3 different size options, and each option had 3 different applicable furniture layouts. The range in possibilities allows each pod to be accessible to a wider range of vendors while being more customizable to best fit the vendors. The options for the layout were: all tables, all shelving, or a combination of the two. The idea behind this was to offer an option that focused on the display of merchandise, an option that had a lot of storage capabilities, and an option that had a mixture of the two. The building consisted of 2 main levels and a mezzanine. The entry level, or the first floor, was all open markets in order to keep an open layout to compensate for the heavier traffic. The mezzanine and second floor incorporates the closed pods with the open market to create the sense of a community zone.
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