FREE YOUR MIND......

With a market place that carries produce from all over N.C. I feel it is important that the architecture of the space speak the same vernacular and regional architectural language. Not exactly the same materials used in the same manners but perhaps old building systems with new materials or the other way around, reminiscent of my concept overdrive project with the use of materials in ways they may now generally be intended. Also I would like to use textures, colors and forms from nature. I would also like to use agricultural architecture, barns, greenhouses and silos to give a few examples but put a more modern abstract twist on them. Think of the features that really make them recognizable and try to incorporate these into the retail space I am working on. After a discussion with Suzanne on Friday it became apparent that this space would ultimately tell a story of the people and places that the produce are harvested. This could really help bring life to this space and give it a soul that would really help the customers relate to the products carried here. I REALLY want to strive to recreate these iconic forms and design elements without reproducing them piece for piece. I don’t want to reproduce a barn or greenhouse but capture their essence in order to create a market place. I feel that my concept as changed a great deal from using nature as a palette to more of an abstraction of vernacular farm structures. These structures often do use natural materials in there construction so I may not stray to far from using nature as a palette but focuses more on the materials that are relevant to this particular space.