The old Brunswick Market will be dismantled and reconstructed into a commercial precinct in the civic core of Brunswick. The transfer modulates the failed arcade typology and its walkway bordered by stores, where instead of a linear, closed movement, the ‘transfer’ bends and wraps around itself, ensuring a unique and engaging path for each individual. The transfer has visual permeability from the street frontage as well as from within. A thoroughfare is clear, but benign obstacles dissuade observational blindness, with the precinct encouraging pause.

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Places to gather are both programmed and implicit - individuals may wait for their party on the Sydney Road frontage atop bluestone steps, a group of friends may meet for a coffee before taking the tram into the city, or families may gather for a celebration in a restaurant. A team may rent out an indoor badminton court on the weekend, before taking a shower and heading into the city for a formal meeting. Burgeoning small businesses would flourish when given the opportunity to serve a conglomerate of local community members, passersby and the people they bring along. The industrial history of Brunswick would be revived in the affordance provided by large fabrication shops, while a new history can be written in a community centre concerned with the social and environmental progression of the greater Merri-bek area.

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The precinct refuses to take advantage of its environment, opting for open air walkways and paths, allowing the sky to be visible at all times. Visual connection to country in respect and cooperation with the Wurundjeri people who understand the connotations of developing the proposed site is essential - the ‘transfer’ is part of a journey through Wurundjeri land.