Market Canopyyy
A single roof over an existing open-air market, designed to cast a specific quality of shade rather than to enclose.
Market Canopyyy — gallery
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Project information
- Riverside quarter
- 2022
- 2,200 m² covered
- Completed
- City authority
- Architecture, Urban Design
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Description
The project
The market had operated on this ground for decades without a roof. The brief was shelter; the risk was that a roof would turn an open public place into a building with opening hours.
The canopy is therefore a roof and nothing else — no walls, no doors, no perimeter. It sits on twelve slender columns and floats clear of every existing structure.
The soffit is perforated in a gradient, denser at the edges and more open at the centre, so the shade under it moves through the day rather than sitting flat.
Our concept
Where it started
Shade as the subject. The project was designed from studies of what the ground looks like under it, not from what the roof looks like from outside.
Rough work
Drawings, studies and site
The working documents behind the finished building — including the parts that changed.
01Concrete formwork mock-up on site
02Survey drawing of the existing timber frame
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