The Grote Vissertijplein is a square in the heart of BoTu which holds the open market twice a week. The open market is an important activity for the neighborhood. The spatial program idea for this site is to create a function while compatible with the open market.
Right now the main users of the open markets are elder people, due to the opening time of the market we presume the users are mostly retirees, jobless, or stay at home parents. During the usual day, the site is occupied with stall equipment, and most are kids here use it as a playground.
- Main user group of the open market:
- Elder people
- Parents with kids
- Retirees
- The potential user group of the site during usual time:
- Kids from Park 1943, nearby schools, playgrounds
- Users from the library
- Users from WMO Rader
- Residents in the neighborhood
The user of the site may vary from different time periods. In this way, the spatial program needs to be flexible and compatible with different functions and users.
The functions of the spatial program will contain street galleries, outdoor movies, hole neighborhood shows and events, transit storage, rest and chat space.
The flexible units can be used as a single space for small range events like chat and rest. Besides, the simple structure can be easily grouped into a bigger facility to compatible with more types of events but also can become the space divider to active the square space into different sections.
The example of flexible units( Pop-In, Pop-Out, Pop-Up: Collapsible Street Cinema Uses Film to Reflect on Soviet Russia in Venice)
The concept of the arrangement for the flexible units is related to the existing sculptures in the site. As the sculptures already separate the space instinctively, adding the units to combine with them can easily turn the square into few sections. In this way, the use of space can have more possibilities: besides the function of the unit itself the outer space turns into functional space as well.