Farm to Marketplace
Farm-to-Marketplace studies the possibility of providing local farming within walking distance in a dense urban environment to provide the freshest food for the locals in busan.
The public garden on site is blocked out by different agricultural plots of land. The ground floor also continues the market place program by providing indoor retail spaces and semi indoor spaces in the Concourse, under the large elevated landscape, for retailers, vendors, restaurants and cafes. The open spaces can be used to continue the already existing street market into the project site and/or underneath elevated landscape between the two mixed-use building.
The upper level office and public farm is accessed by using the sculptural vertical circulation. The second floor consists of office spaces that open out to the elevated landscape surface that turns up the building elevation to provide additional farming real estate.
Levels three, four and five offer residential units that can be rented by migrant farms who tend to their allotted land, or surface area. Each residential unit can be built out as a single bedroom with an office space or a double or triple bedroom depending on the needs of the tenant.
Farm-to-Marketplace is a mixed-use architecture that uses both traditional farming and new methods of vertical farming to repurpose all unused surface area of a building for the purpose of growing fresh food. It also proposes to reclaim the existing street market as an infrastructure to distribute fresh produce to the locals. Farm-to-Marketplace studies the possibility of providing local farming within walking distance in a dense urban environment to provide the freshest food for the locals in Busan.
Farm-to-Marketplace studies an alternative solution to the ever present “hypermarket,” by using new architectural strategies to provide farming within major cities. By introducing this architectural strategy and reusing the existing street market, the locals can enjoy fresh food within a 15 minute walk.
Site: Busan, South Korea
Program: Mixed-Use
Year: 2021
Status: Open Competition