Junction at market value: a new life for the Toronto Weston flea market
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2023-04-11
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The City of Toronto’s current urban development
is driven largely by efforts to refurbish existing
sites, or by the demolition of the existing fabric
to construct new buildings. This thesis takes
the position that the adaptive reuse of the
existing building stock is a more environmentally
and socioculturally sustainable option.
Focusing on the site of the Toronto Weston
Flea Market, which sits at the junction of three
distinct neighbourhoods that are undergoing
redevelopment for a new transit hub. This thesis
develops a set of guidelines for this industrial
site’s future adaptability and proposes the design
of a mixed-use commercial community hub
that offers numerous amenities while reflecting
the surrounding neighbourhoods’ identities
and values. This thesis presents an adaptive
framework with a set of guidelines to reuse the
Toronto Weston Flea Market in a single design
intervention to promote an alternative to new
construction.
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Architecture, adaptability, adaptive reuse, Canada, development, neighbourhoods, Toronto, social value, cultural value