Markets are identifying spaces of society and Mediterranean markets are representations of the history of the Mediterranean and its culture. Contamination is the main focus of the market. A market is an architectural space created by contamination, both statically and dynamically, composed of people passing by, eyes looking, voices, and goods, overlapping colours and stacks, non-design. The opposite of architecture designed with control and glamour, markets realize space in their chaos, which is their strength. A street market transforms any anonymous, grey street into an active, colourful, dynamic urban space. Every openair bazaar, once it closes, becomes a simple, anonymous road again revealing the sense of contamination that becomes space. Even the large Middle Eastern souks or nineteenth-century European markets with their designed and defined iron architectures, such as the Bouqueria in Barcelona, when seen in the closing hours seem dull, lacking: their architectural quality needs life to reveal its energy. With reference to examples around the Mediterranean, this essay investigates the relationship between space and its contamination, proposing the definition of a greater cultural value of space, which moulds into chaos, characterizing itself as a collective project of identifying space.
From Dawn to Dusk. Space and Contamination in markets.
Marta Magagnini;Salvatore Santuccio
2020-01-01
Abstract
Markets are identifying spaces of society and Mediterranean markets are representations of the history of the Mediterranean and its culture. Contamination is the main focus of the market. A market is an architectural space created by contamination, both statically and dynamically, composed of people passing by, eyes looking, voices, and goods, overlapping colours and stacks, non-design. The opposite of architecture designed with control and glamour, markets realize space in their chaos, which is their strength. A street market transforms any anonymous, grey street into an active, colourful, dynamic urban space. Every openair bazaar, once it closes, becomes a simple, anonymous road again revealing the sense of contamination that becomes space. Even the large Middle Eastern souks or nineteenth-century European markets with their designed and defined iron architectures, such as the Bouqueria in Barcelona, when seen in the closing hours seem dull, lacking: their architectural quality needs life to reveal its energy. With reference to examples around the Mediterranean, this essay investigates the relationship between space and its contamination, proposing the definition of a greater cultural value of space, which moulds into chaos, characterizing itself as a collective project of identifying space.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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