A Fashion Palace for Maastricht

Abstract

For my graduation project I was aspired to devise a Public Interior that has a role and responsibility within the city and has a larger beyond its site impact and implication.

My effort was focused in the field of fashion due programmatic relevancy to Maastricht and due to my own very personal motivation of finding ways to challenge current unsustainable fashion production and consumption reality. Programmatic core of the project consisted of the argument for a more sustainable production and challenging unethical outsourcing practices that define everyday fashion that we wear.

The project is an effort of finding a new typology for post-industrial factory for fashion. The meaning of the project stemmed from proposing a new architectural typology that will be representative and cel¬ebratory of future of sustainable Fashion Production.

The typology of a palace as a festive and representative public interior has been chosen as starting point to devise the new kind of Factory. The building merges the Factory and Palatial aspects. The palace is represented by the internal circulation that creates an interior public sequence, consisting of vestibule, cortile, break space, large public greenhouse courtyard, foyer and finishes with a garden (river promentade). The factory aspects were incorporated in the material expression that foremost catered to the possibility of the very large building being built cheaply yet sustainably.