The imperfect centre aims to address today's overabundance of food waste, where aesthetic preferences mean that food can easily go to waste. Seeing certain produce as ugly, overripe, too big, too little, or even incorrectly shaped results in otherwise good fruit and vegetables going to waste. The project includes a fruit and vegetable distribution centre and a market for the public, a tour route is set up to allow the public to experience the spatial structure corresponding to the ugly fruits and vegetables, to experience and observe the process of sorting closely to accept ugly food, thus reducing food waste due to the abandonment of fruits and vegetables due to their imperfect appearance.
EXTERIOR VIEW OF IMPERFECT CENTRE
The building façade uses rough concrete and repetitive aluminum panels to create a wrinkled textured exterior, in contrast to other common flat facades, reflecting the ugliness of the product from the imperfection of the building, and it attracts the public through these qualities to visit the structures and products inside.
SECTIONS OF IMPERFECT CENTRE
The first floor provides an area for public activities, including a shopping area, a visitor area and a circular tour, while the ground floor is used for sorting in the sorting centre, where the sorted fruit and vegetables are sorted by forklift or conveyor belt and transported to different areas. The better fruits and vegetables will be packed and sent to other points of sale, the ugly ones will be sent to the secondary processing area to be made into juice or jam or sold at a discount, while the inedible fruits and vegetables will be transported to the processing area for composting, thus achieving complete processing of the fruits and vegetables.
Plan of Imperfect Centre
The interior of the building is designed to reference the shapes of fruits and vegetables that are not desired by consumers and businesses, and the interior is structured to have space dimensions or lines of movement that do not fit the usual specifications. A tour route is set up to allow the public to experience the spatial structure corresponding to the ugly fruits and vegetables, to experience and observe the process of sorting and reprocessing fruits and vegetables up close, as well as to provide points of sale for ugly fruits and vegetables and secondary processed products.
Interior of composting centre
The route is designed as a circular route, starting with some science on the dangers of food waste and using part of the area as a visitor area, where inedible fruit and vegetables will be transported to the processing area for composting, thus achieving complete processing of the fruit and vegetables.
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Jeanette Qin, EXTERIOR VIEW OF IMPERFECT CENTRE
Jeanette Qin, SECTIONS OF IMPERFECT CENTRE
Jeanette Qin, Plan of Imperfect Centre
Jeanette Qin, Interior of composting centre
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