2016 MCHAP
Mercado Roma
Rojkind Arquitectos
Mexico City, Mexico
April 2014
PRIMARY AUTHOR
Rojkind Arquitectos (Michel Rojkind)
CONTRIBUTING AUTHOR
Cadena + Asociados (Branding Design) Gerardo Villanueva Bárbara Trujillo Alfredo Hernández Diego Leal Andrea León Rodrigo Medina Philipp Schlauch Beatriz Zavala Birgit Hammer Juan Manuel Ortuño David Stalin Alonso de la Fuente Rafael Cedillo Arie Willem de Jongh Victor Martínez Adrian Aguilar David Guardado Monique Rojkind Cynthia Cardenas Dolores Robles Rosalba Rojas Alberto Villareal Bello (Interior Design) Isaac Smeke (Interior Design) Felipe Castañeda (Interior Design) Emilia Franssen (Interior Design) Alejandra Hernández (Interior Design) Esrawe Studio (Interior Design)
CLIENT
The Fideicomiso para la Cineteca Nacional
PHOTOGRAPHER
Jaime Navarro
OBJECTIVE
Conceived as a space to house expressions of the rich contemporary and Mexican gastronomic culture, Mercado Roma gives special emphasis to the sense of community and collaboration. Designed by Rojkind Arquitectos and conceptualized by Cadena + Asoc. Concept Design “Mercado Roma is meant to be a catalyzer and detonator to the community. The market seeks to integrate local efforts and launch them from a contemporary platform rooted in cultural traditions and the collective history of a nation”. Ignacio Cadena.
CONTEXT
The street level houses fifty-three vending stalls configured in an organic and fluid arrangement, which reinterprets the grid of the traditional market. The two upper levels house a couple of restaurants and roof deck.
PERFORMANCE
This project is the result of a strong collaborative process that merges multiple fields of design: architecture, engineering, industrial and graphic design, illustrators among others. The street level houses fifty-three vending stalls configured in an organic and fluid arrangement, which reinterprets the grid of the traditional market. The two upper levels house a couple of restaurants and roof deck. The project also includes and open air space surrounded by a fully functional vertical vegetable garden, from which fresh produce will be harvest to then be sold at the market, thus completing the cycle of production-distribution-retail. “We see this as a great opportunity to create a contemporary market in Mexico, where the concept will position it, as a community reference offering high quality products”. Michel Rojkind