Design Brief: An urban market is designed next to the Castlefield Viaduct to celebrate local food, the Roman fort, and to attract visitors from the station to the heritage park. This area provides a complete cooking food cycle, including a preparation area with cold storage, a cooking school, a packaging and washing area with a recycling wall, and a food hall. Each function is separated within its own boundaries but under the same roof.
Design Concept & Manifesto:
for the past...1. Create a playful and relaxing space for people to celebrate the history of the Roman Fort and other heritage symbols. 2. Connect the relationship between the visitors with the past.
for environment...1. Leave the site a better, sustainable condition 2. Re-use the site with green programme- urban farming.
Design Strategies:
I. Connection with historical symbols around the site: the site sits between two heritage areas, which is a spot to gather visitors to celebrate the history.
II. Community Connection: The market also acts as a connection to draw people from the viaduct with the city center through the steel- frame staircase.
III. Program: Four different function of cooking cycle and urban farming are separated to display for the consumers, even open for visitors to experience.
IV. Urban Living Room: A communal seating area is designed in the middle of the market to gather the crowd entering from the four entrances.
Clients:
- Visitors from Castlefield Viaduct and Deansgate Railway Station
- People from Manchester city center
- Local residents from the housing around the site
- Students taking kitchen studio lessons
2022
Location: a green plot bounded by Duke St., Beaufort St. and the Castlefield railway viaduct, Manchester
Category: Urban Market Architecture, Cultural Architecture
Designer: Yu, Chih-Chieh
Instructor: Ashley Hunt, Colin Harwood
Manchester School of Architecture Bachelor of Architecture
Year 2 Studio 2.1 Individual Work
Chih-Chieh Yu
