Mar Elias Crop Market: Integrating a food logistics center and crop market in the high density urban fabric in Beirut

Situated in the suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, the Mar Elias Crop Market acts as protagonist project of the market district in the Beirut Mosaic urban masterplan. This masterplan is part of the Complex Projects Beirut graduation studio, focused on dealing with catastrophe in the built environment. The Mar Elias Crop Market is a mix of a logistic...

Wandering from the shopping street into the department store: Markthal V&D

The shopping street of Alkmaar, the Laat, is in need of a new public function that creates a domain to stay. The vital location of the former department store offers a space directly into the cultural centre of the city, close by terraces, shops, or other amenities. The local culture of the city of Alkmaar has determined the new experience of...

The architecture of markets: Comparing the organization of street markets to the market building

Market structures have taken many forms. To understand the organization and architecture of markets, the research will question to which extent markets require the architecture of market buildings by studying the markets of the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The street markets of Rotterdam have advanced at a steady pace and proved that...

NYC Foodscapes: Market and housing in Hell's KItchen

Hell’s Kitchen West is currently transforming from former manufacturing to residential district however at the moment the quality of the living environment is far from being sufficient. The transition is done in a very hasty way and rezoning has a fragmentary character, some blocks have been already rezoned into residential and new high-rise...

Speaking architecture: a semiotic study toward understanding visual communication in architecture

Architecture communicates. Through its appearance it can communicate a function, time or place, or some kind of ideal. However, architecture does not communicate with words like humans do: instead, it communicates through a four- dimensional, non-verbal language consisting of forms, spatial organisation and materialisation. The problem is,...

The elevator diagram: A food hub for Luxembourg city

The elevator diagram is a proposal concerned with the question of how to intervene in the contemporary city, with Luxembourg as an example. The proposal takes as a ground point the geography of the city, analyzing the dichotomy of the valley and the plateau as a particular characteristic, and intends to create an architectural interface capable...

The Green Lab

The Green Lab is an implementation in the city triangle of Rotterdam. A historic food market analysis greatly shaped this green factory, where food is the connecting element. To let food awareness grow, a mini food production cycle with a transparent and flexible process is created.