The project ‘Sharing, Caring, Repairing’ aims to transform the former community swimming pool of Fenham and the Pocket Park next to it into a community-led space dedicated to trade, sharing, and repairing objects.

The swimming pool building contains two rooms: A welcoming coffee hall and a workshop space.

The coffee hall encourages community cohesion and social interaction. This place is where people in Fenham meet their neighbours, friends and new people who share the same interests. This room aims to create a warm atmosphere to make people feel comfortable within their community.  

The second place is the workshop. The hole of the swimming pool serves as storage and as workshop area where residents can repair their possessions like bike’s, lawn mowers, or furnishings. A lot of different tools will be available for shared use if needed to repair any type of item. As well as these repair areas, there are workbenches and sewing stations if required for cosmetic repair work.

During the weekend, the area transitioned into a market for trading. Many different events and stalls can be put up here because all shelves and tables can be stored in the empty swimming pool area which will be under the market stalls.  The empty pool can be covered by a wooden floor so that all the space available can be used for the event. This space can also be used for other events as it is designed as a covered square.

Activity opportunities in the workshop

The market will also take place outdoor in the Pocket Park. Indeed, the stalls designed for the market can easily be moved and installed everywhere because of they are foldable and have wheels.

The purpose of the poster is to show the transitions of the space from Repair shop to Market through an exploded diagram. 

Poster presenting the project

Circular economy and trading

Envision of covered market and workshop