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Brief: to expand your existing spatial operation (mixed-use building) and design ideas to create a larger permanent proposal that will benefit the area, your chosen organization or a brand, the local users and local biodiversity

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Client: Residents & local businesses of Hackney Wick, Hackney, Newham, Waltham Forest, or Tower Hamlets. The target audience will include people living nearby would mostly home-stay mums or working adults in their late 20s or early 30s. 

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Concept: INSIDE OUT i.e., is a holistic approach to integrating the built environment with the natural environment. Interior spaces can be made to suit our human nature and connect with the world outside; capturing views, daylight, solar heat gain in the winter and natural ventilation for cooling.

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Strategy & Programme: 

Silo Plaza is an opportunity to deliver an affordable workspace for creative and design businesses and start-ups. It is an exciting opportunity to raise the bar of local workspace provision to meet the creativity and entrepreneurship of young people across Newham. The market constitutes the type of richness that has the potential to support and enrich a variety of cultures and communities. The building is circular within its uses. The space is well equipped for disabled people as well. The ramp starts from the market and ends in the café and office space. The interior circulates you as you go. 

 

The market reuses Hopkins’ abandoned post-war architecture style Patera building; as a shell that makes it a strong and stable structure for the next few years. It also uses local food to provide food locally and create more job opportunities. The stalls are designated for different types of retail for example art, craft, food, and grocery. The market square also consists of a semi-circular seating area where people could hang out and enjoy the view.