Market is the public place that contains fundamental activities of daily life. To create a place for cultural and social activities of community throughout the day and the year, the market hall is placed in the center. The market is a HUB of all the tangible experiences of the senses, and the food is the mechanism. All other programs correspond to the five senses, and the senses are merged in lively activities in the market. The open space of market meets the Flexible nature of the market. By maximizing the usage of void, it allows flexibility for different scales of using space by different social, economic activities. Also the void is maximized as a park that can be extended for versatile usage from a daily lunch spot to year around festivals for communities such as cherry festival that attracts 10,000 people around the countries. The street interconnects the landscape and the programs and becomes a structure of the building. The involved activities of people make landscape and programs interconnect when one is a visual organization and the other is a social organization. With concern of structure, the building has two layers of the roof. The inner skin of roof corresponds to the program in the building and holds people inside. On the other hand, the outer skin corresponds to the landscape and expands the space to the site by responding the patterns of the site. Along the path, people constantly flow. The circulation of people inside the building is a part of the larger circulation of people downtown. The continuous activities of people unfold the space with different quality of sense and activity in human scales such as different patterns of texture of ground, different light quality of ceiling throughout the day, and the different colors and scents from seasonal plants. As the experiences extend from market to park, the boundary of pedestrians would be expanded as well. By attracting pedestrians with the market, the community encourages more active and passive recreational use of the broader site.
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Jiae Kim