Strategy 2: Marketplace as suture using a Persian precedent

The next problem I need to resolve is how to connect three disparate functions, the marketplace, academic conference center, and water feature/playground.

This bazaar in Isfahan, Iran provides the perfect precedent:The commercial area along the serpentine pedestrian street acts as a suture for madrasas, caravanserais, and bathhouses reached behind from passages between the narrow shops. At each end are two large mosques that anchor the development.

In the IPACC, the water feature/playground and academic conference center banquet hall take the place of the two mosques at each end. The shops lead to academic breakout rooms, accessible ramp systems, and courtyards that provide periodic structured opportunities for people from different backgrounds to interact and as well as to obtain privacy. The plan also translates very well to my site's undulating topography.