Convene Store
Author | : Basak Akman |
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Release | : 2019 |
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The Convenience Store has been evaded in (A)rchitecture. This thesis isn't about grocery stores inaccessible for those without cars or overpriced neoliberal food stores guised with organic ads, but Convenience Stores that are open 24/7 and sell basic necessities at moderate prices: from the slightly browning banana to almond milk to "3 for $1" Twinkies to the premium Trojan Ecstasy. The inclusivity of products marks convenience stores inclusivity to its consumers, a space utilised by the disenfranchised as much as the privileged. Convenience stores are for everyone. However such stores representation in media and lack of development in Architecture has removed such unifying qualities. Astoundingly, the term Convenience, Latin root convenientia: com "together" and venire "to come", means: to come together. This thesis is redesigning the Convenience Store to reclaim it's veiled and forgotten capacities to act as an Architecture of resistance and empowerment.