Spitalfields banglatown: Food in the city Term One Introduction contents Project 1.1 Project 1.2 Project 1.

3 Project 2.2 Continued

Introduction The following work is an introduction for a design intervention project. Documenting the research, ideas and sketches of an Architectural scheme forming part of a thesis design proposal. With influences taken from previous years of study, the work is an amalgamation of thought processes and data retrieved to form a conceptualised architectural schematic for the future. Food has been a large consideration throughout the work, creating a starting point for this project. The focus of this year has been on the development of architecural vision through the media of film. The following work includes a series of storeyboards, chronograms and film research.

James Wines Highrise of homes 1981

Project 1.1 Wings of Desire Chronogram Chronogram

Project 1.2 Multiplicity: One and Several Space Location: The Market Spitalfields

Market Stalls A night time perspective of an empty market place. A metal jungle of semi-permanent stalls.

Market Stalls A night time perspective of an empty market place. A metal jungle of semi-permanent stalls.

Market Stalls A night time perspective of an empty market place. A metal jungle of semi-permanent stalls.

Project 1.3 Spitalfields: Food In The CIty Location: Spitalfields Banglatown

Redchurch Street

Photographic Mapping Food In the CIty Spitalfields Banglatown 2011

Brick Lane

Commercial Street

Brushfield Street

Spitalfields Market

Toynbee Street

Hanbury Street

Food In The City Food is the common link people have to a city. Rarely is a building made without consideration to food; its preparation, its consumption, its storage. The food history of a place is easier to swallow than the actual school taught history of a place, it is also much easier to imagine a place through ones olfactory senses. Patrick Suskinds book Perfume creatively describes Paris using smell; although the smells imagined were mostly that of the grotesque kind. The smell of food is one of the many essences of a city. Spitalfields Market and the surrounding streets are packed full of restaurants and food outlets. To map these outlets photographically would provide an overall feeling of the space. To then compare this to historic food mappings would show the critical development. Ultimately a futuristic image of the area and the food supply chain can be envisioned, by distinguishing a pattern along a timeline. Delicatessen, the french film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro perceives an apocalyptic time where food is so scarce it is used as currency, and where many of the inhabitants have turned to cannibalism in order to retain their carnivorous ways. What happens to a place when most of the shops and ground floor public domain is dominated by food shops, restaurants and delis? What if food wasnt so conveniently attainable; most of the shops would be derelict; boarded up for fear of riots. What does this mean for our cities?

Food production is going to be an enormous problem in the Long Emergency. As industrial agriculture fails due to a scarcity of oil- and gas-based inputs, we will certainly have to grow more of our food closer to where we live, and do it on a smaller scale. The long emergency - Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century

Huguenot riots in 1769- the once prosperous silk trade fell into a deep decline when the government passed rights for silk to be imported from France, causing the merchants to riot, including the breaking in of competitors property to damage their businesses.

Thousands of Jews came to England when they It was common in the 1800s to see cattle roaming the Poverty was ripe before the first World War. Due to overfaced hostility in their homelands. They moved to the street of London. The only way to keep meat fresh crowding and a lack of industry. Terraced houses had been already overcrowded and poverty stricken area of was to transport it live to its destination. cleared for the new Liverpool Street Station. Spitalfields. Above is an illustration of the soup kitchen in Spitalfields.

Historic Map Circa 1875

Booth Poverty Map Circa 1889

Google Earth Circa 2010

The arrival of train to the area meant food could travel from further away.

Rationing of food in London during World War II. Fresh fruit and vegetables had to be home grown. Most of the gardens of London became allotments to provide fresh vegetables, consisting mostly of potatoes.

Spitalfield market famous vegetable and fruit market.

A new type of Market - one aimed at the on-the-go professionals, just moved in to the area and in to the high priced developed properties.

The London Riots of 2011. Some of the worst Riots London has ever seen, spreading like wildfire across the country. The reason - Poverty, High House prices and unemployment. Even Tescos was raided as people stole food.

Soup Kitchen:Visit

Diary Extract: Visit to a Soup Kitchen, 2011 By Melody Morton Yesterday in Bournemouth I visited a soup kitchen I had heard about from a friend. I went there with no expectations. I had tried to call and find information online, but it was all very vague and unhelpful. Having lived in Bournemouth for most of my life it was strange to suddenly find an underworld to which I had probably always chosen to un-see. It was dark, crammed and intimidating- but there was also a positive atmosphere and sense of community; I noticed there was no soup being served, but sausage, mash and beans. I was approached by a lady, she put her arm around me and asked if Id like some food, when I explained I was not there to be fed she looked at me strangely, I explained I would like to speak someone, she once again put her arm around me as if I had something distressing to talk to her about. I explained I was there for study purposes, her body language changed- she moved her arm and urged me to look around the room at how busy it was. I would need to speak to Murial (the lady in charge) she was also too busy, so I went to sit in a cafe opposite and enjoyed some paid-for lunch; the atmosphere so far removed from what I had just experienced. It was interesting to watch the people; some unexpected, wandering down the alley and then back with a full tummy. I sat with my cappuccino thinking about how I might approach Murial and ask to take photos. I felt unsure as to whether I would be faced with hostility. The Lansdown Baptist Soup Kitchen has been running successfully for 20 years; although they are constantly battling with local residents, developers, town planners and a majority of the local businesses. They are not wanted here or anywhere and are now suspicious of people like me, for fear of being shut down for health and safety policies. I went back at 1.30pm, people were still grouped outside but the interior of the space looked different. A few stragglers were still in there sat down but most of the chairs and tables had been put away by the diners. Murial came and spoke to me, I told her why I was there, she seemed very interested. I am going back next week to work a shift. The diners were very curious about who I was, not many wanted their photo taken. I need to gain their trust, Murial said I will be able to take more photos next week, even of the tiny kitchen. I think it will be an experience. I will be the youngest volunteer, there are no young people working there. I feel this indicates something sad about my generation.

Food for the city: More than just a Soup Kitchen

The Laudrette

Free Clothing

Food Restaurant Gordon Matta Clark ...The restaurant lasted not quite three years in its original incarnation, as the artists who cooked in it and who ran it, more as a utopian enterprise than a business, burned out or moved on. But many of the vaguely countercultural ideas fostered there fresh and seasonal foods, a geographically catholic menu, a kitchen fully open to the dining room, cooking as a kind of performance have now become so ingrained in restaurants in New York and other large cities that it is hard to remember a time when such a place would have seemed almost extraterrestrial. quoted from New York Times, by Randy Kennedy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/21/dining/21soho.html?pagewanted=all

Photographic Mapping Food In the CIty Spitalfields Banglatown 2011

Words from the big book And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house. And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth. And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail. And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year. When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands (Gen. 47:13-18).

< Spitalfields market 2026 With a huge surge of people moving into the area due to crises in their own countries, Spitalfields becomes over-populated and by 2026 is a busier market, yet the restaurants and bars have all closed down or moved elsewhere. The richer inhabitants have moved out of the cities and in turn inner-city slums have developed all over London. > Spitalfields Food factory 2051 The food Crisis of 2026 onwards means Spitalfields becomes a huge community driven food factory and soup kitchen. Working on a nonprofit system. The people work together in shifts, the younger residents are expected to work longer hours than the elderly. Rotas are drawn up- the more you work, the more benefits you get from the factory.

> Spitalfields Food factory 2051 The food Crisis of 2026 onwards means Spitalfields becomes a huge community driven food factory and soup kitchen. Working on a nonprofit system. The people work together in shifts, the younger residents are expected to work longer hours than the elderly. Rotas are drawn up- the more you work, the more benefits you get from the factory.

Photographic Mapping Food In the CIty Spitalfields Banglatown 2011

Current/Speculative DATA:Food and Soup Kitchen

50 000 Litres of Soup

Tower Hamlets Tower Hamlets Cumulative Percentage Estimate (2026) Tower Hamlets Projecte Population (2026)

56.6%
316,000

Spitalfields Market Visitors (2026) Weekly Sunday Current Unemployment London Unemployment Spitalfields Market
Spitalfields Market Visitors Weekly Sunday

39,150 23,490 13% 9%

25,000 15000 39,150 23,490

Spitalfields Market Visitors (2026) Weekly Sunday

Soup Kitchen for the Poor (2026) Speculative Soup Kitchen Visitors (2026) Daily 24,000 Speculative Soup Kitchen Visitors (2051) Daily 40,000 Daily Requirements per person (Calories) approx 1200 2026 Calorie Totals approx Soup Litres 2051 Calorie Totals approx Soup Litres 28,800,000 44,800 48,000,000 76,800

Film: Spitalfields Soup Kitchen 2.3