新范菜市场
上海
An aerial site precedent documenting the insertion of a large-span vaulted market hall within a dense, historic urban riverfront fabric.
- What we like about this project
- The multi-bay curved roof clearly distinguishes the new market hall typology from the surrounding pitched-roof vernacular.
Materials
- metal
- concrete
- tile
Visual identifiers
- vaulted-roof
- waterfront-setting
- aerial-view
- dense-urban-fabric
Style tags
- contextual
- civic
- urban
Visual tags
- masterplan
- contextual
- urban-fabric
- riverfront
- civic-scale
- Geometry
- Elevated view looking down over an urban waterfront fabric, highlighting a prominent market hall with a multi-bay barrel-vaulted roof standing out amidst lower-scale pitched roof buildings.
- Facade system
- Low-rise perimeter walls with large-span curved roof structure.
- Structural guess
- Large-span steel or timber trusses supporting barrel-vaulted roofing over masonry and concrete base.
- Spatial scale
- Macro-scale aerial perspective showing entire neighborhoods, bridges, and regional topography relative to a large civic market building.
- Lighting
- Diffused, hazy daylight creating soft shadows and a misty atmospheric background over distant hills.
- Atmosphere
- Hazy, expansive daylight blending a historic built landscape with civic intervention.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban settlement situated along a riverbank with rolling hills visible in the hazy distance.
- Spatial experience
- The perspective emphasizes the urban grain, contrasting the broad linear river and bridge with the dense, organic clustering of urban housing and the dominant geometry of the market hall.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating curved barrel vaults of the market building juxtaposed against irregular pitched residential roofs.
- Style reading
- Contextual urban integration
- Program
- Municipal market hall and surrounding urban settlement
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- urban
- Materials
- metal, concrete, tile
- Visual identifiers
- vaulted-roof, waterfront-setting, aerial-view, dense-urban-fabric
- Style tags
- contextual, civic, urban
- Visual tags
- masterplan, contextual, urban-fabric, riverfront, civic-scale
- Geometry
- Elevated view looking down over an urban waterfront fabric, highlighting a prominent market hall with a multi-bay barrel-vaulted roof standing out amidst lower-scale pitched roof buildings.
- Facade system
- Low-rise perimeter walls with large-span curved roof structure.
- Structural guess
- Large-span steel or timber trusses supporting barrel-vaulted roofing over masonry and concrete base.
- Spatial scale
- Macro-scale aerial perspective showing entire neighborhoods, bridges, and regional topography relative to a large civic market building.
- Lighting
- Diffused, hazy daylight creating soft shadows and a misty atmospheric background over distant hills.
- Atmosphere
- Hazy, expansive daylight blending a historic built landscape with civic intervention.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban settlement situated along a riverbank with rolling hills visible in the hazy distance.
- Spatial experience
- The perspective emphasizes the urban grain, contrasting the broad linear river and bridge with the dense, organic clustering of urban housing and the dominant geometry of the market hall.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating curved barrel vaults of the market building juxtaposed against irregular pitched residential roofs.
- Style reading
- Contextual urban integration
- Program
- Municipal market hall and surrounding urban settlement
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- urban