I. Concepts for exploration.


A. Geometry

1. Method of Parameter Adjustment
a. Using the site as basis of parameters, integrate this base with the new use
parameters.
b. Test new parameters with function and buildability.
2. Part/ Whole
a. Develop and explore relationships of the detail part to the unit to the cluster to the complex to the site, and finally to the coastline.

B. Culture

1. Integrate current cultural activities and events within the renewal of the site.
a. Allow for private fishing from the docks.
b. Legitimize the selling of seafood at private residences.
c. Promote the connection to other main public events along the coastline.
2. Promote the new reason for being for the silo complex.
a. Establish new cafés for outdoor entertainment.
b. Renew the ground floor of the site to be pedestrian orientated.
c. Enrich the passageway for local walking up and down the waterfront.

C. Sustainability

1. Efficient and economical reuse of the silo complex
a. Explore reuse of the steel tubing in the silos
b. Develop placement of the concrete rubble from adapting to housing.
c. Explore passive systems to incorporate in the heating and cooling of the building.
d . Explore the desalination system.
e. Establish a rain collection system to integrate with the desalination, sewage, and
water systems.
2. Urbanism/ Urban Design
a. Explore the original reason for being versus the new one.
b. Develop the waterfront edge as a pedestrian friendly environment.
c. Develop the south edge of the site as a transition to the city and a front to the main
street.

II. Goals: Areas for development


A. Finish the passeggiare and connect it to the city behind the site.

1. Continue the current waterfront to and around the silo site.
2. Engage the Fontana Grande behind the site.
a. Use the wall behind the site as a threshold into the marketplace instead of a barrier.
3. Establish an outdoor café area for social gatherings and events on the west side of the silos.

B. Reuse the Silo Relic as a housing/desalination complex

1. Develop housing units on multiple floors.
2. Integrate desalination tanks for both silo clusters on the waterfront in between the housing units.
3. Use the top floor of the silos to create a civic open lawn.
4. Incorporate passive heating and cooling vents on the roof.
5. Develop structural analysis for the silos.
6. Develop a skin system for both the housing and the desalination areas.

C. Create an open-air market on the first two floors of the silos including the pier.

1. Remove the flooring between the first two floors to create an open-air market for both fisherman and other goods to be bought and sold.
2. Reuse the crane on the pier for hoisting the seafood from boats below.
3. Use the pier as an extension of the market over the water for artists to sell their wears (live/work environment) and for the tourist ferries to dock.