The suburban territory of Istanbul can be used to explain the term melting pot: a mix of people walking in the same streets and sharing the same experiences in a different way. This leaves a permanent sign on the way of living and feeling the city.
That generated a clear contamination between the different trade activities and the way of living public space, in a continuous overlapping of ways disciplines and crafts. Streets and alleys acquire the meaning of “urban room” as a place of exchange and crossing point. The streets are the limit in which human relations occur. So the limit acts on an active contest and entails a precariousness, a stable communication between the parts. The direct relation between the city, the land contours, and the collectivity, is the origin of its languages. The line on which things happen.
The design choice was made in the continuity of these considerations; the architecture of the market merges the programmatic space with the public space.
The programmatic space is contained in a strip where all the programs are located and compressed by the public space.
As in Istanbul, the exchanges take place into the programmatic strip and extend themselves into the public space inside the building.
The purpose is to open the market’s public space towards the city as the continuity of the city’s public space in order to make of this building not only a market but a place of sharing cultures, events, business, and meeting each other.
That’s why the project is focused around a big patio, which can be used for different types of events, and people can also appropriate it in different ways.
In this building, the market is the main component to form a place where the city enters and its habitants can act like in the streets.
