Project drive-thru

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Project drive-thru

The American suburb has become an empty shell of its former self. Where the downtown was once the heart and soul of the community, a strip next to the highway has grown containing consumer commodities. Along the commute home from work, suburban inhabitants stop, shop, eat and finally travel to the privacy of their homes. No longer is the act of shopping a social spectacle. No longer is community the heart of suburban life. The suburb has become an inefficient lifestyle focused on the seclusion of the commute. For a successful return to the leisure state of the suburbs, we need to embed higher levels of efficiency within our current vehicular infrastructure. Car oriented strip-shopping needs to become faster and more compact, thus allowing for the rest of suburbia to again be leisure, slow space. The Big Box has become an ineffective way of consuming. By considering the waste, of time and space, associated with commute shopping, a new system replacing the current big box/strip formula is created. Using the basic infrastructure of the car, the heart and soul of American travel, we propose to change this stop and shop mentality. The efficiency of the drive-thru merges both warehouse and shopping, making the middleman (big box) an unnecessary byproduct.By embedding this new shopping prototype into the infrastructure of the highway a buffer is created between pedestrian and vehicle allowing the community to repurpose the large areas of open space left vacant by the abandoned big box.

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Stephen Killion

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Francis Wilmore

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Project drive-thru

Project drive-thru

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