City Market: Re-envisioning the Charlottesville City Market

C I T Y M A R K E T

Re-envisioning the Charlottesville City Market

University of Virginia, School of Architecture | Department of Landscape Architecture | Comprehensive Studio Fall 2011

STUDIO PARTICIPANTS STUDENTS

Aja Bulla-Richards Alexa Bush Kate Boles Brian Davis Leah Erickson Joey Hayes Kelly Hitzing Kara Lanahan Jen Lynch

Pete Malandra Kurt Marsh Kirsten Ostberg Emily Peterson Seth Denizen Leah Wener Erin Root Ling Zhang

STUDIO CRITICS

Elizabeth Meyer

Mary Warinner

GUEST CRITICS

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Alison Hirsch, Lecturer, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia Cecile Gorham, Chairwoman, Market Central Charlie Menefee, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Virginia Craig Barton, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Virginia Gary Okerland, Landscape Architect & Urban Designer, City Market Task Force Gullivar Shepard, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Inc. Jeffrey Plank, City Market Task Force Kathy Galvin, Architect & Charlottesville City Councilor Kate Snider, Architect, Alloy Workshop Lola Sheppard, Architect, Lateral Office Pankaj Gupta, Architect,Vir.Mueller Architects Pete O’Shea, Landscape Architect, Siteworks Studio

UVa School of Architecture | Dept. of Landscape Architecture | Comprehensive Studio Fall 2011 | Elizabeth Meyer & Mary Warinner

TABLE OF CONTENTS [1] INTRODUCTION 4

1.1 Studio Intent 5

1.2 Situating the City Market 6

1.3 Markets as Public Space 8

[2] DESIGN RESEARCH 10

2.1 SITE READING + RESPONSE

2.1.1. Current Water Street Site Readings

2.1.2. Responses to the Current Market

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2.2 FOOD SYSTEMS

2.2.1. Farm to Market Network Analyses 54

2.3 PROPOSED MARKET SITES

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[3] DESIGN PROPOSALS

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2.3.1. Water Street Parking Lot 78 2.3.2. Vinegar Hill 84 2.3.3. Ix Factory/Monticello Avenue 90

3.1. Water Street Site 96 3.2.Vinegar Hill 118 3.3. Ix Factory Site 174 3.4. Monticello Avenue 204

[4] CONCLUSION 218 [5] REFERENCES 220 3

[1]INTRODUCTION

1.1. Studio Intent

1.2. Situating the City Market

1.3. Markets as Public Space

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UVa School of Architecture | Dept. of Landscape Architecture | Comprehensive Studio Fall 2011 | Elizabeth Meyer & Mary Warinner

1.1. STUDIO INTENT The City Market can be understood as a public space of exchange, at once temporal and spatial, as well as social and commercial. It is a dynamic venue that embodies the changing of the seasons, the rhythms of the city and its citizens, and the flow of resources that are connected with food production and consumption. The intention of this studio was for each student to design a permanent home for the farmers’ market, considering these flows and the interconnected networks of which it is an integral part. Students were also asked to include at least one new program intended to support and expand the market. Particular emphasis was placed on the development of conceptual rigor from the urban infrastructural scale, through the level of the tectonic details of the constructed market.

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