Model Design Diary

Model Design Diary Hybrid Part 2 Village Hall and Market Place

A cardboard cutout...

Quick-paced, quick-thinking cardboard models allowed decisions to be made early on about form, spatial hierarchies and relationships, including development of strong entrance architecture.

Development of colonnade structure, derived from the classical arcade, on the basis of structural honesty and uninhibited free flow.

Simplification to a more legible scheme.

Cutting light through housing above links the spaces and creates a draw into the entrance atrium.

Quick revisions of market stall layout

“A designer needs to be intelligent and quick on the uptake...

He should be critical, reasonable and realistic... He must also be patient, optimistic and persistent... And finally he should have the capacity for better ideas, a sense of proportion and colour, sensitivity and last but not least a foundation in handicraft and aptitude.”

[Dieter Rams - “Die Rolle des Designers im Industrieunternehmen”]

Meeting Room

Village Hall

Market Hall

1:20 tectonics model of one of the concrete colomns, showing abutments with ground and glass curtain wall. See TSB report for further details.

Facade Study

“The monolithic appearance of exposed concrete makes a building look like a processed blank or sculpture, a workpiece created by removing material from a block�

[Andrea Deplazes]

A glass walkway permits light down into marketplace, giving the impression that the village hall is floating mystically above it, suspended by the ceiling. Creates a dialogue between users of the different spaces.

Simple spider fittings are repeated across the facade, reinforcing the rhythm and connecting the market hall to village hall.

The scale of these elements connects with the scale of the person.

Reclaimed timber in the village hall softens the concrete (both acoustically and visually), stopping at 5m high, eye level in the meeting room.

The Complete Hybrid