Site Boundry

 Naming the important surrounding buildings

 These 2 are brutalist buildings

Looking at how the Guild hall works, it has an inner atrium.

The shops are on the outside of this circulation space.

Looking at the bus station this process is inverted, the circulation space is on the outer part of the building.

 The shopping/retail areas of this are on the inside of the building.

The reason for this difference between the 2 buildings is that the bus station purpose is people leaving at all times, they come here to travel elsewhere. The guild hall however is trying to keep people within the building and even though they may go to other shops they are going through the atrium and interacting within the Guild Hall itself.

Another example of this is the St John's Shopping Centre next to the site. The atrium/circulation space is in the centre

 The shopping/retail units are on the outside of this circulation space.

Since i want to people to interact with my building I will imitate this idea of a central atrium and the public spaces on the outside this allows for attractive shop fronts etc on the outside of the site, drawing people into the central void and interact with the building.