TRADITIONAL FOOD EDUCATION CENTER HUB
The main entrance of traditional food educational hub is located at the intersection of the busiest pedestrian axis of the city and public transport stops, creating a threshold that everyone can easily reach; when entering through this threshold, the Food Museum, which introduces the local culinary culture, displays old food tools and is accompanied by informative guides, greets the visitor. A connection with the past is established through the nostalgic “grandfather’s table” corner in the museum, and then users are directed to interactive areas where they can experience the use of these tools. As soon as you leave the museum, the space fiction moves the user to an open street between two units animated by street tastes with a declivity transition; a multi-sensory experience is experienced by seeing, smelling, and tasting on this street. The street moves both vertically and horizontally by connecting with other units with foldable systems, suggesting a flexible circulation. This open axle creates an urban interface that serves not only the interior but also the external environment by associating with commercial enterprises on the edge of the structure facing the ring road. The buildings on one side of the street connect with the environment with public functions, while the units on the other side host educational-oriented uses. At the lowest level, there is a green production garden where local products are grown as an extension of food education; this natural area offers the user the opportunity to get in touch with the soil and observe the production process. In addition, the long-span cover extending from the green terrace to the outdoor amp creates a semi-open space fiction by including the street and strengthens the spatial continuity by giving the feeling that it is almost passing through the structure as this cover moves towards the ring road. Thanks to all this fiction, the user becomes involved in a fluid spatial experience that integrates with both the city and the education, experience, and socialization processes inside from the moment he steps into the structure.
