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Spitalfelds banglatown: Food in the city

Term One

Introduction

contents

Project 1.1

Project 1.2

Project 1.3

Project 2.2

Continued



James Wines

Highrise of homes 1981

Project 1.1

Wings of Desire Chronogram

Chronogram

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 inuences 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 lm. The following work includes a series of storeyboards, chronograms and lm research.



Project 1.2

Multiplicity: One and Several Space

Location: The Market Spitalelds



Market Stalls

Anight time perspective of an empty market place. A metal jungle of semi-permanent

stalls.



Market Stalls


stalls.



Project 1.3

Spitalelds: Food In The CIty

Location: Spitalelds Banglatown



Photographic Mapping

Food In the CIty

Spitalelds Banglatown

2011

Redchurch Street



Brick Lane



Commercial Street



Brusheld Street



Spitalelds Market

Hanbury Street

Toynbee 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 eas-

ier to imagine a place through ones olfactory senses.

Patrick Suskind’s 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.

Spitalelds Market and the surrounding streets are

packed full of restaurants and food outlets. To map

these outlets photographically would provide an over-

all feeling of the space. To then compare this to his-toric food mappings would show the critical develop-

ment. Ultimately a futuristic image of the area and the

food supply chain can be envisioned, by distinguish-

ing a pattern along a timeline.

Delicatessen, the french lm 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 hap-

pens to a place when most of the shops and ground

oor public domain is dominated by food shops, res-

taurants and delis? What if food wasn’t so conveni-

ently 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-rst 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

faced hostility in their homelands. They moved to the

already overcrowded and poverty stricken area of

Spitalelds. Above is an illustration of the soup kitch-

en in Spitalelds.

It was common in the 1800s to see cattle roaming the

street of London. The only way to keep meat fresh

was to transport it live to its destination.

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.

Spitaleld market -

famous vegetable and

fruit market.

Poverty was ripe before the rst World War. Due to over-

crowding and a lack of industry. Terraced houses had been

cleared for the new Liverpool Street Station.

Anew type of Market - one aimed at the

on-the-go professionals, just moved in to

the area and in to the high priced devel -

oped properties.

The London Riots of 2011. Some of the worst Riots London

has ever seen, spreading like wildre across the country. The

reason - Poverty, High House prices and unemployment. Even

Tescos was raided as people stole food.

The arrival of train to the area

meant food could travel from

further away.

Historic Map Circa 1875 Booth Poverty Map Circa 1889 Google Earth Circa 2010



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 nd information online,but it was all very vague and unhelpful. Having lived in Bournemouth for most of my life it was strange to suddenly nd 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 I’d like some food, when I explained I was not thereto 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 t o 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 work-

ing there. I f eel this indicates something sad about my generation.

F d f th it M th j t S Kit h



Food for the city: More than just a Soup Kitchen

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 utopi-

an enterprise than a business, burned out or

moved on. But many of the vaguely counter-

cultural ideas fostered there — fresh and sea-

sonal 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

The Laudrette Free Clothing




Food In the CIty


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 ocks, 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).



< Spitalelds market 2026

With a huge surge of people moving into the area due

to crises in their own countries, Spitalelds 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.

> Spitalelds Food factory 2051

The food Crisis of 2026 onwards means Spitalelds

becomes a huge community driven food factory and

soup kitchen. Working on a nonprot system. The peo-

ple 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 benets

you get from the factory.




Food In the CIty


2011

> Spitalelds Food factory 2051

The food Crisis of 2026 onwards means Spitalelds

becomes a huge community driven food factory and

soup kitchen. Working on a nonprot system. The peo-

ple 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 benets

you get from the factory.



Current/Speculative DATA:Food and Soup Kitchen

Tower Hamlets

Tower Hamlets Cumulative

Percentage Estimate

(2026) 56.6%

Tower Hamlets Projecte Popula-

tion

(2026) 316,000

Spitalelds Market Visitors(2026)

WeeklySunday

39,15023,490

Current Unemployment 13%

London Unemployment 9%

Spitalelds Market

Spitalelds Market Visitors

Weekly

Sunday25,00015000

Spitalelds Market Visitors(2026)

WeeklySunday

39,15023,490

Soup Kitchen for the Poor (2026)

Speculative Soup KitchenVisitors(2026)

Daily 24,000

Speculative Soup Kitchen

Visitors(2051)Daily 40,000

Daily Requirements per person(Calories) approx 1200

2026 Calorie Totals approx

Soup Litres2051 Calorie Totals approxSoup Litres

28,800,000

44,80048,000,00076,800

50 000 Litres of Soup



Film: Spitalelds Soup Kitchen 2.3

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