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hicks
MARKET G R A D U AT E P R O J E C T Market Hall This market is not just a place to buy food, but a place for connection. Like the table itself, food brings people together while simultaneously making them aware of their differences. Hence, this market sets the stage for an anticipatory journey of sensory exploration and learning, culminating in a shared dining experience.
community’s food needs, but will act as a city destination point. Flexible space in the market will be able to host a wide range of events to include: music events, town hall meetings, community gatherings, communal dining, art installation space, and a variety of educational and cultural events. [16 weeks] Graduate Studio
Located in the former Uline Arena in the NoMa neighborhood of DC, the market not only serves the local
Media: AutoCad, Sketchup, Graphite on vellum, Watercolor, Photoshop
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ORGANIZATION STUDIES
OVERLAYING GRIDS. The architecture of the space employs a series of overlaying grids to allow for varying levels of intimacy and formality, which form a metaphorical city within the building. The market layout draws inspiration from a city grid, with city roads that intersect at defined nodes to create primary, secondary, and tertiary circulation routes:
GRID A
GRID A - structured city blocks aligned with building columns GRID B - “main avenue” forms circulation to the central cube GRID C - “streets” connect the nodes to the main avenue
GRID B
GRID C
education kitchen
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prof. kitchen
mech.
dry stor. walk-in freezer
main entrance
cook
walk-in refrig.
eat
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flex space
admin offices
raw vendor booths
market level plan - not to scale
lighting effects plan - not to scale
meet cafe zone
loading dock
cook
eat
meet
raw
The grid organization defines unique programmatic zones for the various stages of interaction between people and food - these zones have been defined as the following: raw, cook, meet, eat. exploded axon
main entry hall
RAW vendor zone: • zone where food is at its purest form - untouched, unmanipulated • interact with the person who’s grown and harvested the food • act of “gathering” -- architecture promotes wandering, exploration, discovery • walls composed of transparent wood slat screens to create layered views, and frame the cube beyond.
small vendor - closed
large vendor
small vendor - open
RAW vendor zone
COOK education kitchen: • food and human connection, intimacy increases • cooking for others - performance as means of bonding and sharing one’s ideology and taste via food • bronze panels frames the cube beyond
COOK education kitchen
MEET cafe zone: • informal, meeting space initiated through consumption of food • full view of cube occurs • materials: white concrete and wood
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MEET cafe zone
EAT. The cube restaurant is the final stage of the human to food journey • beacon draws viewer towards it, builds anticipation • most formal and intimate dining occurs here • materials of each node culminate in the final cube construction
2. under cube
1. cube approach
3. inside cube restaurant
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CUBE LEVEL 1
CUBE LEVEL 2
CUBE LEVEL 3
NOT TO SCALE
NOT TO SCALE
NOT TO SCALE
acrylic panel system
bronze framing system
wood clad
wooden perimeter staircase
concrete core
MEET cafe zone night rendering
C O N T A C T Jennifer Hicks jennifer.m.hicks@gmail.com 703.577.9762