La Halle des Saveurs
A market hall exterior featuring a repeating sawtooth roof with solar integration, combining a solid base with extensive upper-level glazing for daylight harvesting.
- What we like about this project
- Solar panels neatly flush-mounted on the steep southern-facing or dual-pitched sawtooth monitors.
Materials
- glass
- steel
- concrete
- photovoltaic-panels
Visual identifiers
- sawtooth-roof
- glass-curtain-wall
- solar-panels
- solid-base
Style tags
- contemporary
- industrial
- functionalist
Visual tags
- market-hall
- daylight-harvesting
- industrial-heritage
- sustainable
- facade
- Geometry
- Long low-rise massing featuring a repeating sawtooth roof profile facing north-south, sitting on a solid opaque lower ground floor with continuous strip glazing above.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall glazing over a solid reinforced concrete or masonry base wall.
- Structural guess
- Steel truss roof framing resting on concrete or steel perimeter columns and ground-floor walls.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story industrial/commercial scale, approximately 8 to 10 meters in total height to the sawtooth peaks.
- Lighting
- Bright late-day sunlight casting long shadows, illuminating the sawtooth glass facade and highlighting solar panels on the roof pitches.
- Atmosphere
- Clear, optimistic light highlighting sustainable adaptive-reuse or market architecture set within green grounds.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or parkland edge with mature evergreen and deciduous trees, open lawn, and temporary construction fencing in the foreground.
- Spatial experience
- The long facade engages with a landscaped foreground and perimeter fencing, reading as a civic or industrial market hall in an open setting.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical window mullions matching the frequency of the overhead sawtooth roof trusses.
- Style reading
- Contemporary industrial civic architecture
- Program
- Food market / public hall
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, steel, concrete, photovoltaic-panels
- Visual identifiers
- sawtooth-roof, glass-curtain-wall, solar-panels, solid-base
- Style tags
- contemporary, industrial, functionalist
- Visual tags
- market-hall, daylight-harvesting, industrial-heritage, sustainable, facade
- Geometry
- Long low-rise massing featuring a repeating sawtooth roof profile facing north-south, sitting on a solid opaque lower ground floor with continuous strip glazing above.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall glazing over a solid reinforced concrete or masonry base wall.
- Structural guess
- Steel truss roof framing resting on concrete or steel perimeter columns and ground-floor walls.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story industrial/commercial scale, approximately 8 to 10 meters in total height to the sawtooth peaks.
- Lighting
- Bright late-day sunlight casting long shadows, illuminating the sawtooth glass facade and highlighting solar panels on the roof pitches.
- Atmosphere
- Clear, optimistic light highlighting sustainable adaptive-reuse or market architecture set within green grounds.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or parkland edge with mature evergreen and deciduous trees, open lawn, and temporary construction fencing in the foreground.
- Spatial experience
- The long facade engages with a landscaped foreground and perimeter fencing, reading as a civic or industrial market hall in an open setting.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical window mullions matching the frequency of the overhead sawtooth roof trusses.
- Style reading
- Contemporary industrial civic architecture
- Program
- Food market / public hall
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture