Abstract:
Architecture at its principal state, is a discipline established to form new realities, propose radical perspectives, and also seek to form relationships with human conditions. This research considers the role of the architect, as an agent who seeks knowledge of human behaviour, significant contexts and practices. The intent of this architectural research focuses on an architectural methodology to become acquainted with the social paradigm of the hawker’s market in Port-Louis, Mauritius. This activity of the hawker’s market, situated in the island’s capital, has been removed from its original practices due to its organic nature. This research firstly, focuses on the abstract hypothesis of islands, as spaces where social patterns can be seen as the reaction to historical events and migration. The result of this research speculates an architectural response that is representational forming an abstract space driven by the imagination and the use of Creole dialects.
