In Aotearoa many of our small towns have been given the choice to adapt to the tourism business or get left behind. Opportunities for people to live outside of this bubble are severely lacking. One of the most prominent instances of this is in Paihia, Northland with two classes - wealthy holiday makers and low income residents - make up the town's ever changing population. This project hopes to help the latter group.

This project proposes an urban level intervention atop the existing village green and adjacent carpark. This proposal includes; several large vegetable gardens, the daylighting of a culverted stream, compost heaps, workshop spaces, and a hall.

This hall is to hold community events to sit adjacent to regular tourist-based going ons. It has 18 doors along the North, South, and West edges which can be configured to become market stalls through further operable elements. These doors allow the building to change face during the days, weeks, and seasons, indicating use more effectively than signage or advertisements. The result is a scheme that is formally rigid but programmatically blurry.