HyperMarket
FormShift Vancouver
The primary site lies within a generic urban context of Vancouver – a low-rise commercially zoned roadway with continuous residential districts on either side, an underground and surface based transit system and an urban typology where it is difficult to differentiate one neighborhood from another. hyperMarket is a design proposal in response to this context – it is a project that engages the idea of boundary systems (both physical and social) where architectural space can promote, sustain, and adapt to a changing environment. hyperMarket is structured around three primary concepts:
Greenhouse Tower
A 30 storey mixed-use “green-house” tower (with commercial and educational programs on the lower floors, and residential units above) is skinned with an integrated agricultural envelope that can be farmed for leafy greens. Wrapping the tower is an operable louvered glazing system providing natural ventilation for the tower and its harvest. Flowing downwards, the outer glazing skin forms an open atrium and entry way into the public market.
Market
The open multi-purpose market stretches across the entire site, allowing the space to be used freely as an open plaza – a place where the public can interact, shop (while going to and from the skytrain station) farmers can sell the produce harvested on the tower and where public events can celebrate Vancouver, the neighborhood and its cultures.
Relationships
The physical and visual relationships are arranged to breakdown the repetitive typologies that surround the site. The undulating folds of the market roof and the towers layered skins form an architectural framework that creates new scales and allows for unforeseen interactions to arise. It is an environment that is more than an architectural object - it is a dynamic place where vegetables are grown, farmers sell goods, people interact, live, work, celebrate and can create a new relationship with Vancouver.
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