Pop-Up Market

adittibaj
Dec 16, 2024
2 min read

EMPATHIZE

When the 2020 pandemic disrupted our daily lives transcending all geographical, cultural and technological differences, the humanity was posed with a tremendous ethical challenge: how to work towards the preservation of life above all else?

As a response to address this fundamental question through the potentials of architectural and urban design, a workshop initiated an attempt to call for proposals as a call for action and reflection for radical improvement of current circumstances.

DEFINE

This project came out of a concern to look at the public markets -one of the essential daily needs which impacts a large population of daily wage workers- and how can design help in preserving the functioning of these markets while maintaining the COVID-19 protocols of social distancing. These markets had been identified as main contributors to the spike in COVID-19 cases -due to them being direct points of interaction.

THE PRODUCT

*Prototype of a single pop-up vending stall with a queue of shoppers*

Voila! The result of this inquiry was a pop-up market with a vending stall that can be mass-produced and easily assembled at multiple locations across the globe. The solution is easily executable and applied without the context. It attempts to take care of the COVID-19 protocols through the details of materiality, design, and the process of making it.

DETAILS

The process of assembling the vending stall:

*QR for the KIT of Parts of the Vending Stall*

Design Flexibility:

COVID Responsive Features:

The design uses the below-illustrated features and strategies to make this proposal sensitive to covid-19 protocols that are required to be abided by in order to mitigate the spread of virus as we see public spaces opening for essential services