Civic spaces have become a fragmented, commodified asset, and some of the most radical changes to its being is the transformation of its value and by extension the making of the city by capital force is questioned. The disappearance of civic space to private development are building enclaves, transforming public lands into neighborhoods that do not exist for the context it is in.
The Royal Mail sorting center at Mount Pleasant will see a decline in operations in the coming decade. While part of its plot has already sold off to private development, it is inevitable the rest of the sorting facility will follow as well. This project attempts to redirect the capital forces acting upon the Royal Mail sorting center into an alternative development. It attempts to foster a continuous present, to make the specificity of the form subject to human action and intervention, so to anticipate the future in the present, where services can be transformed and be reconfigured.






