Adaptive market hall building

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Project • By Black Rabbit • Shopping Centres

Solum

Solum is a framework for creating holistic micro-communities. It is a flexible and adaptable planning model that bridges between suburban and urban environments. It focuses on mixed-use courtyard clusters that prioritize the pedestrian to promote walkability, social connectivity, and authentic patterns of living. Black Rabbit Black Rabbit Caption   More

Project • By MRD • Rurals

Santa Maria Petapa

Taller MRD and DFArquitectos collaborate to revitalize the Santa María Petapa market in Oaxaca, Mexico, offering it a new opportunity after the devastating earthquake of 2017. Established by the Urban Improvement Program (PMU) and headed by the Secretariat of Agrarian and Territorial Development and Urban (SEDATU), this project had as its main objective the unification and integration of a previously urban and socially fractured space. By preserving the site's distinctive cultural elements, such as ocher-toned brick and clay structures, the team not only managed to preserve its origin, but also forged a lasting legacy. Jesús Omar Luis Salvatierra Jesús Omar Luis Salvatierra What we found on the site was an ur... More

News • News • 3 Jan 2023

SuperHub Meerstad by De Zwarte Hond brings a circular version of the traditional market hall to a growing district of Groningen

In the burgeoning Meerstad district of Groningen, De Zwarte Hond has completed SuperHub, a multi-functional, interactive, and adaptive market hall building for a growing neighborhood. This circular version of the traditional market hall includes a supermarket, an upscale café, and plenty of spacious areas for residents to meet. The project's main aim is to bring back the concept of shopping as a social and personal experience, thus offering an alternative to the new popular express delivery services. Ronald Tilleman The large span structural system with a nine-meter ceiling height provides a luminous interior and an open floor plan that affords a flexible layout and future adaptation. The structural concept features expansi... More