Ideas Factory/ the foundry

29 on the go · 3 materials
nothing here is finished

Market Row on a high summer afternoon, looking north-west across the square. A paved square with a low round stone water bowl, three silver birches and long backless timber benches, set in grey granite setts laid in fan arcs. Behind, the north and west sides: a ground floor of limestone pilasters and dark bronze shopfronts with lit fascias, Lowther Gallery, Abbott & Sons Barbers, Market Row Baths, Marlowe & Pike Booksellers, The Albion Lounge, The Crown & Anchor, Fairbairn & Vine Wine Merchants, Trattoria Lucia under a red and white striped awning with tables out, and Hartley's Bakery. Above, a pale limestone grid of tall bronze windows, a band of clerestory glass and a thin floating roof plate, with slate behind.

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Materials and services

Stone that survives salt air, glass that spares the sleeves, and flues and air for every fire and engine.

The card

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Materials and services

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The notes

rendered

What a real build would need. Notes for the next stage, not a specification.

  • Dense pale limestone, not travertine, in the salt air
  • UV-filter glass on the shopfronts
  • Flues for the deck oven, pizza oven, stoves and fires
  • Floor drains, fuel interceptor and exhaust ventilation in the showroom
  • Cooling to about 12 °C in the wine cellar

The plates

1 · lift any one out
Market Row on a high summer afternoon, looking north-west across the square. A paved square with a low round stone water bowl, three silver birches and long backless timber benches, set in grey granite setts laid in fan arcs. Behind, the north and west sides: a ground floor of limestone pilasters and dark bronze shopfronts with lit fascias, Lowther Gallery, Abbott & Sons Barbers, Market Row Baths, Marlowe & Pike Booksellers, The Albion Lounge, The Crown & Anchor, Fairbairn & Vine Wine Merchants, Trattoria Lucia under a red and white striped awning with tables out, and Hartley's Bakery. Above, a pale limestone grid of tall bronze windows, a band of clerestory glass and a thin floating roof plate, with slate behind.
01 · Market Row on a high summer afternoon