[ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY] There is a hybrid function of market and court for this project. Both the market and the court have their distinct directions which allow them to connect to the urban form. The existing South Market is the one of the destinations of this hybrid model while Saint Lawrence Hall, to the North, is another. These two components are organized along a North-South axis.
[CIRCULATION] VISITOR TYPE 1: [the wanderer] Networks are built on redundancies, overlaps, dead ends, split ends: ramps: A series of wide ramps weave and connect multiple points forming a labyrinthian models, similar to the informal street, souks, and alleyways of the urban Bazaar model.
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VISITOR TYPE 2: [fast and faster] escalators: (15) escalators enable direct a-to-b connections to strategic points in the MC: Hybrid. VISITOR TYPE 3: [slackers] people watchers, octogenarians, homeless, and sub-culture enthusiasts: Bird watchers, cloud appreciation society (Toronto region), winter hockey and skating enthusiasts, Goths, The Asphalt picnic club (APC)winter
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Level [B-2, B-3] scale: 1:50
Level [B-1} scale: 1:50
section [a] scale: 1:25
section [b] scale: 1:25
Level [1W; 1E] scale: 1:50
Level [2W; 2E] scale: 1:50
Level [3W; 3E] scale: 1:50
Level P [plaza] scale: 1:50
INFRAbelow : infrared | infrasonic. • Anatomy below or under a part of the body: infrarenal. EXTRAoutside; beyond : extracellular | extraterritorial. • beyond the scope of : extracurricular. ORIGIN via medieval Latin from Latin extra ‘outside.’
FROM INFRA TO EXTRASTRUCTURE: Infrastructure is the basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise. Infrastrucutre typically refers to the technical structures that support a society such as roads, power grids and telecommunications. Viewed functionally, infrastructure facilitates the production, distribution and ultimately consumption of goods or services. And by goods and services I mean Markets and Courts. Typically infrastructure remains hidden, below or covered up. The Brief, issued by the city of Toronto expresses a heavy bias to conserve the adjacent historical buildings, however does not project an architecture that will serve Torontonians future. In the city’s apparent desire to create a new market complex in adherence to their historical context, they have outlined a dichotomous goal. My concept clearly notes that Toronto’s politics are progressive…so should their architecture and their city. PROPOSAL: NEW NORTH MARKET: EXTRATUBES A set of tubular streets run north-south providing three dimensional shopping arcades. They are connective: Tubes are discreet and singular in places and in other areas they interlace and connect forming convergences. Like the Toronto Underground infrastructural circulation/shopping network. The proposed new Market addition is an exposed and ‘extra’ set of networked tubes that generate new ways of connecting and servicing other portions of the city along. (point to Toronto underground network) They are adaptive: Unlike the South Market, the North Market is conceived of as a ‘bundle of market tubes’, they can be added to, elongated or reprogrammed. The ‘market bunch’ is never complete it is always ‘incopy or mimic the already successful south market. They have a ‘vibe’: The market has a sense of the labyrinth, or the back alley, perhaps even the Bazaars of the Middle East; it is a place to loose oneself in the experience of the market, promoting a new dynamic form of public program and space. Like a horizontal twisted Eifel Tower Torontonians will eventually fall in love with this ‘messy vitality’. THE COURT SERVICES’ AND COURT ROOMS: the market it is closed, secure and procedural. The court, located along Jarvis Street is accessed from below or from the interior court yard.
[STRUCTURAL STRATEGY] [conventions] The primary structure is comprised of a load bearing central steel truss (North/South axis) running continuously from bearing points @ -16 meters below grade up to +15 meters. Below grade the truss supports parking slabs and mechanical rooms, stairs etc. At a height of 12 meters a double cantilever (spanning east-west) supports a continuous sloped tubular space containing portions of market space (toward the west and the civic court functions in the east). Truss members: .25-meter square peripheral tubes with .18 welded diagonals. [invention] Hung from the underside of the truss are open ‘scapes of space’ promoting an ambiguous zone blurring MC-Hybrid? Lateral forces: Minimal lateral forces exist (Toronto is outside earthquake and hurricane zones) wind forces are transferred by truss diagonals to the foundation at sub-level B-3.
[SKIN/FAÇADE/ROOF SYSTEMS] Through the implementation of active facades, the goal has been to achieve a level of sustainability within these spaces. In order to reduce waste and Double façade on all new construction, solar panels. [FAÇADE] Market: Double façade, glass in portions adjacent to activity and therefore visual connection is essential. Court : Double façade, mostly glass. Active façade Front street adjacent: Unifying facade
[PRECEDENTS] [santiago calatrava] Liege-Guillemins TGV Railway Station; Liege, Belgium. September 2009. [morphosis] [cooper union] [renzo piano] Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris France IBM Travelling Pavilion Lingotto Factory Conversion (also the Addition to the Meridian Hotel) Punta Nave Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Genoa Italy Potsdamer Platz Reconstruction, Berlin Germany Maison Hermes, Tokyo Japan Padre Pio Pilgrimage Church, San Giovanni Rotondo (Foggia), Italy