Michelle de Jong
SHARING SYDNEY University of New South Wales
My project aims to address problems and issues with the current food system by proposing a new method of dealing with food wastage. The project explores how the typology of the marketplace can reimagined as part of Sydney’s sharing economy. Despite the overall successes of the current food system, there remain problems. The developed world has surplus food, while in the developing world one billion people go hungry. A huge amount of food goes to waste, indicating that the current food system has flaws. Resources are not being used efficiently and current patterns of production and consumption can be improved. There are also negative impacts on the environment. For example, huge amounts of fossil fuels are required for food production, which then goes to waste. It is worthwhile to rethink and improve the global food system and find solutions to waste. Some waste is inevitable, which raises the question, what is the best thing to do with it? A sharing economy helps address the issue of waste. In a sharing economy, waste has value with waste becoming a resource in the wrong time and place. With efficient sharing, currently wasted resources are reallocated to where they are valued if not needed. Blackwattle Bay and Wentworth Park will be transformed into Sydney’s new and constantly activated food and sharing hub, connecting all kinds of people, from all over Sydney, to participate in and benefit from shared life. Design intent is focused around creating an environment that encourages the connection of people. The ‘Share Hub’ will become the keystone to the site, celebrating sharing and collaboration between all members of society and within all aspects of life.
Site Plan Blackwattle Bay and Wentworth Park, Sydney
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Project Masterplan Reimagining Wentworth park down to the waterfront 1. reactivated parkland 2. share hub 3. fresh food markeplace 4. lightrail station 5. fishmarket 6. ferry terminal
Connecting central Sydney down to the waterfront
Connecting Pyrmont & Glebe
Meandering experience through the park
Connection to park
Plaza’s for coming together
Channelled circulation
Major site moves Connecting people together
Building centred around new park plaza’s
Central focus
Grid for scattered pavilions containing new sharing economy program
The “Share Hub�
Central coutryard and sharing spine
The facade opening up to the park
Internal passageway along perimeter of building
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First floor plan
Roof plan Plans: program
1. Main Auditorium 2. Small auditorium 3. Bar 4. Micro-brewery 5. Beer & baked goods swap 6. Back of brewery 7. Share bakery 8. Gym 9. Air-bnb pods 10. Showers/Change-rooms 11. Graffiti wall 12. Artist Studio
13. Art swap 14. Central Auditorium 15. Flexible marketplace 16. Playground 17. Bike rental 18. Childcare 19. Youth centre 20. Soup kitchen 21. Storage 22. Backstage 23. Exhibition spaces 24. Function space
25. Bicycle parking 26. Information desk 27. Community centre 28. Book swap 29. Sports centre 30. Soccer field 31. Share kitchens 32. Shared dining room 33. Food swap pantry 34. Cooking school 35. Dance studio 36. Yoga studio
37. Meeting rooms 38. Workshop space 39. Classrooms 40. Stationary swap 41. Co-working spaces 42. Office social zone 43. Seed & plant swap 44. Grow your own food 45. Running track 46. Bbq area
SUSPENDED CEILING WITHIN ACTIVE ZONE
TIMBER BI-FOLD DOORS ALONG RECESSED TRACK
ALUMINIUM SCREENS
GAS STRUT STAY ARM HINGE
Sectional axonometric details Capturing particular moments within the building, and demonstrating the playfulness, flexibility and adaptability of the spaces and program, along with the structural and aesthetic nature.
The sharing spine The Sharing spines becomes the new typology for the sharing economy. It is where all the sharing of goods takes place. Any item can be stored within the spine, for the enjoyment of someone else. For example, pantry items near the shared-kitchen can be stocked up by the community and used by the community, so that not everyone has to purchase pantry items just for themselves, or have them for so long to see them go to waste. Or, near the coworking spaces - a stationary swap. And near the community centre, a book swap. If you take something, you replace it with something else. If you finish something, you buy/ produce a new item to replenish the stock.
Detail of auditorium, rooftop garden boxes, and relationship to primary axis connection through the site
Detail of exhibition spaces, and relationship to secondary axis connection through the site
Detail of child care centre, playground, and sunken relationship to park
Detail of adaptable studio spaces, co-working spaces, temporary marketplace and plant swap
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Adaptable spaces User ability to create different sized rooms depending on activity requirements
Growth Ability to expand building either temporarily or permanently in the future
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expanding oval within square
Exploded structure A steel frame structure, responding to the durability requirements of a public building. The steel grid system begins to inform the formation of adaptable spaces
Motif of the sharing economy
An inverted ovular building Oval with a square Oval nourishment/inclusion/playfulness/equality/ease Square security/safety/strength/containment/stability
Multiplied to form facade pattern
Model