Inhabitiation- Textile flower Shop

Inhabitation investigates how existing places(predominantly rooms and buildings ) can be inhabited for specific purpose. The development of an understanding of a particular activity, use, function, task, operation or ritual will be the key to this. And work will evaluate practical factors such as ergonomics, systems and processes but will go beyond this to consider emotional, sensual and spiritual issues as key components. People and activities they undertake in buildings are this project’s prime concern.
Following my ongoing investigation into the needs of Kortrijk and the wider problems of retail and the High street we I engaged with the site a Chinese restaurant called the Great Wall, which is a three storied buildings including a semibasement, complex and multi leveled with confusing layouts and layers of refurbishment and construction over many years.
This project will deal directly with production and consumerism; questioning the nature of making things that satisfy our desire and the way it is packaged and sold.
The original building is a Chinese restaurant, It will be reused as a retail store allowing manufacturing, making, displaying and selling products(Textile flowers) and packages( bio-textile packaging). The reasons I choose them owing to considerations of environmental protection and context of Kortrijk and its needs.
I investigated that large amount of flowers were wasted during flower carpet markets almost 5 times each year in Kortrijk , and global flower market all caused serious environment problems. How to encourage people consume less fresh flowers while reactive textile industry and bring lax processing back to city’s life.
Textile flowers extract not only the pigment from waste flower petals, but also the spirit of flowers, as sense of vitality and hopeless, since Kortrijk are struggling from retail crisis, and sense of death and hopelessness can be perceived almost everywhere.
Visitors will be invited to have a journey to experience a cycle of composting( burial ) and regrowth(rebirth) in the space of matter and form.The first floor is all about composting( burial ) , visitors came into the shop and leaned over to put the waste flower petals and branches into the boxes on the floor. The existing kitchen’s walls will be demolished, as well as the carpet and decoration on the walls and suspended ceiling, to expose the original masonry to make the space more vital.The semibasement will be directly used to cultivate fungi and make bio-textile packing products. The second and third floor will become a whole space which is mainly distinguished through wet and dry zones , pigment workshop and dyeing workshop are on the left wet zone, while handmade products, display area and shop are on the right dry zone.
The new building has three vertical circulation, an elevator on the right, an existing stair is maintained, a new double spiral staircase is in the middle, one is made of bio-materials, while another’s materials is recycling from the existing staircase, and a new horizontal Mobius band walkway runs through the second and third floor , which symbolize regrowth and eternal recurrence a of life, it gives visitors ways to get the products on the shelves as well.