Street markets in Greece sell all kinds of fresh vegetables and fruits. This is a tradition that takes place once per week and characterises Greek cities, transforming radically the ambient of the district where they occur. The street changes radically; from a vehicle passage and car park, it becomes the receptor of a "happening". The current project seeks to decode both the social aspects of the street market, as well as it’s practical yet crucial characteristics of locality and provision of fresh, low-cost products. It proposes a way in which these characteristics can be established in the city permanently.
For this reason it focuses on the street market of Metaxourgeio, an urban district of Athens, at Kerameikou Street. It occupies the space of 3 vacant lots (at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the food market) and the street section that connects them.
