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Warrengate Market Wakefield

Part 1 Project 2004
Jordan Lloyd
Tatiana Muringani
 University of Sheffield | UK
The Warrengate Market scheme is a medium sized closed continental market facility that creates the opportunity for social interaction through the space of food. A double height rectangular volume literally bridges across a dual carriageway and makes an existing route more prominent to link two segregated parts of the city together. A range of social, ethnic and economic issues are explored throughout the schemes development in addition to the practical aspects of the building typology such as construction detail, ventilation and acoustic considerations.


This project offers a new multi cultural market facility within the centre of Wakefield. The original urban gesture to raise the building above the surroundings allows a possible reuniting of two areas of the town that have been disconnected. Within this gesture he has created a number of environments for the consumption and display of food. These are carefully integrated into the overall composition. The proposal shows a mature understanding of materials and their relationship to their urban context. Overall the body of work is mature offering an intelligent understanding of how one might deal with a fragmented urban environment.
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2004
| WARRENGATE MARKET |
| EXISTING SITE CONDITIONS | - A residential area within Wakefield is isolated from the rest of the city by a dual carriageway.
| DESIGN BRIEF | - How can a building typology sucessfully address issues of route and community sustainability?
| THE SPACE OF FOOD | - The space of food becomes the catalyst for the opputunity for social interaction between people along a route.
| SPATIAL HIERARCHIES |- An investigation in how volumes relate to each other in a sequence.
| INITIAL EXPLORATIONS |
| PLANS & SECTION |
| LANDSCAPE SECTIONS | - Landscape Sections and how the building is affected by light over the course of a day.
| INTERNAL VISUAL | - The excitement of a street market can be meshed with the aesthetic of a modern supermarket.
| CROSS SECTION & EXTERNAL VISUAL | - Exploring the relationship of the traffic to the scheme.
| SITE STRATEGY | - How route is maintained in addition to vehicular access to the site.
| DESIGN DETAIL | - Structure, Construction, Ligthing and Ventilation.
| ACOUSTIC CONSIDERATIONS |
| VENTILATION STRATEGY |
| COMMUNITY SUSTAINABILITY | - Can the scheme generate income for the local community because of its commercial use?
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