Alexis introduced an idea that I found interesting: people/clients don't ask for a lecture hall - they ask for a space to talk to people.
I think here I began to re-assess the programmatic structure of Paddington a lot differently. What do the the people of Paddington need? Namely - open space for community activities, a place to buy and eat food, and most importantly a place to learn about food.
Alexis also made some good points to consider:
- What draws us into a place? why do we want to spend time there?
- Keytheme: Culture of Villages - the human scale of a micro village within a macro urbanity gives a community something they can develop on their own initiative and have pride about. To address this there are both active, instrumental spaces (designed) and passive spaces that will adapt to emergent activities.
- Sequence of spaces
- Famed views, mind and narrative
- Memory
- Threshold spaces
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