Master Plan Model Model

Image of complete model below

Penny Farthing Norias

Image of model below complete with figure ground inversion, river, aqueducts and pennys for norias

Reclaim the Streets- Figure Ground Inversion

The images below show a couple of movements that contribute towards the figure ground inversion.

Firstly the poster below is from the political movement reclaim the streets. Here the streets are occupied to put across political messages

The second image shows a brimingham critical mass meet. Here cyclists gather on mass to reclaim the street from vehicles using their numbers to aid the take.

Possible building schedule

Noria Visual

Public Square Visual

Expropriation for Governance

The image below shows how the site will be adapted to develop an architecture of governance. As the market infrastructure fails after the closure of the wholesale market its indoor market becomes the base for political debate and, sitting adjacent to the public space of protest, become a commons. The previous alliances with the church remain and the building discontinued to be used as a debate chambers. The slide also show the live work units that sit along the march route.

Expropriation for Production

The slide below show the manner in which the existing fabric is expropriated for production. Using the re skilling  diagrams previously posted the sites are split up into the following schedules,

-Production development and testing
-Production and assembly
-Hire maintenance
-Logistics and management

Expropriation for Education

The image below shows how some of the existing fabric will be adapted as part of the evolution of the site. As economic downfall causes buildings decline, and previously gentrified housing to become vacant, the sites are expropriated by the occupy movement.

The slide below shows how the existing fabric could possible be adapted to form a free university and student housing block.

Occupy, Resist, Produce.

In relation to your previous post about managed decline I was reading a book by Naomi Klein called the shock doctrine. In the opening chapter she discusses how under neoliberal politic/economics a new form of disaster capitalism has emerged. Here capitalists take advantage of diasters, whether they be hyperinflation or tsunamis, to enforce privatisation, tax reductions, deregulation etc. She describes how after the new orleans floods the,

'public school system had been almost completely replaced by privately run charter schools. Before hurricane Katrina, the school board had run 123 public schools; now it ran just 4.

http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine

Another piece of work by Naoimi Klein that related directly to our project is her documentary film 'The Take'. The film adopts the subheading of occupy, resist, produce. A summary of the documentary is listed below,

In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want is to re-start the silent machines. But this simple act - the take - has the power to turn the globalization debate on its head. Armed only with slingshots and an abiding faith in shop-floor democracy, the workers face off against the bosses, bankers and a whole system that sees their beloved factories as nothing more than scrap metal for sale.

http://www.thetake.org/

Downfall to Decline

The image below shows the manner in which, after the managed decline of the site, a crisis in global economics leads to a lack of surplus capital and disposable income. As such the site remains unsold and remains a void within the city centre core.

Tourist Economy

The mock covers below aim to show how the short term tourist economy helps the occupy movement to gain financial momentum. The images on the front of the covers aim to highlight how the tourist experience would be an inclusive within a heterogeneous space, as opposed to enclavic tourist spaces as termed by Tim Edensor. Tim Edenser describes how


Enclavic tourist space is akin to Sibley’s ‘purified’ spaces, which are strongly circumscribed and framed, wherein conformity to rules and adherence to cen- tralized regulation hold sway (1988: 412), or may be typified as ‘single-purpose spaces’. Carefully planned and managed to provide specific standards of cleanli- ness, service, décor and ‘ambience’, the continual upkeep of enclavic spaces is crucial to minimize underlying ambiguity and contradiction. 


http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/tourist/a019896.pdf

Visuals

Some visuals of the masterplan made nice and dirty!