AGRIDUCT MARKET
The abandoned Reading Viaduct—an elevated rail line that extends for over one mile in central Philadelphia—is the site for this urban farm and cultural center. This remnant of modernity is reimagined and revitalized to bring fresh food to a neighborhood that is sorely lacking. Agriduct market is a new market typology in which the consumer becomes the picker, washer, and collector of his/her own produce. Various outposts across the Viaduct invite the customer to learn about the preparation of fresh food in kitchen demonstration areas, connected directly to the beds of the market.
WITH THOMAS SMITH+ SPRING BRACCIA-BECK
The architectural interventions take the railroad infrastructure and separate from it, displacing its functional ground plane and programming the space underneath. The building becomes a landscape, subtly sloping to link the cityscape with the planted Viaduct.
ARCH 402 FINAL PROJECT MAY 2013
The main market building, which features a café across all levels, is detailed in the following pages.
WILLIAM KORCHEK
meso-scale site plan + strategies
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MARKET SPACE WITH CIRCULATION
MARKET SPACE WITH CIRCULATION
ENCLOSED PUBLIC ENCLOSED PUBLIC SPACE SPACES B
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GREEN SPACE WITH GREEN SPACE AND LEISURE CIRCULATION LEISURE CIRCULATION
meso-scale site sections
A TRELLIS SPUR HEADING TOWARD CENTRAL MARKET AREA
C TRELLIS MARKET AREA WITH MARKET BUILDING BEHIND
B MAIN ENTRANCE RAMP WITH SLOPED LAWN AND VISITOR’S CENTER
D KITCHEN DEMONSTRATION OUTPOST WITH GREENHOUSE BEHIND
micro-scale architectural intervention: site plan
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SITE PLAN OF CENTRAL MARKET BUILDING
micro-scale plans and sections
GROUND FLOOR
MEZZANINE LEVEL
A TRANSVERSE SECTION THROUGH BUILDING, SHOWING VERTICAL CIRCULATION
B SECTION THROUGH CAFE SPACES AT ALL LEVELS
C SECTION THROUGH INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR RAMPS
VIADUCT LEVEL
renderings
INTERIOR RENDERING OF MARKET BUILDING
RENDERING AT STREET LEVEL