The Mercado de Colon at Dusk
Simon Dance Design recently designed the public spaces within a historic art nouveau market building previously designed by Francisco Mora. Their proposal opened Mora's ground floor with an atrium reinstating the glass skylight which allowed sunlight to filter throughout the structure. New uses such as retail and restaurants enliven the refurbished market, creating a vibrant new ‘destination’ meeting point in the city centre. The project introduces discrete enclosures at ground level and four levels of commercial accommodation and parking beneath.
The Entryway
The market itself has a total area of 3,500 square meters. It presents a Basilica plant of 3 buildings, a central 19 m in height and two lesser side of 10 m light with cantilevered from 6 m to each side, organized into 9 spans 7 m of separation. The structure consists of trusses and arches of metal lattice made profiles consisting of roblonadas joints and screws in the links to the cast iron pillars that support the roof, with heights of 8-5 m, with capital and ornate base. The coverage is made by square cement plates model 'eternity', subject to wire according to their diagonals. The different heights of the cloths cover facilitate longitudinal openings for lighting and ventilation of the space. Along the ridge opened a skylight that provides natural lighting of the ship.
A Fanciful Interior
A little about the interior: on the clear floor, marked by the alignments of pillars, have the market stalls that do not correspond to the initially planned designs, as also happened with the perimeter fence. The access to the site is produced by eight large doors that provide a high permeability and functionally connected with the environment in its perimeter. They are made with profiles and sheets of steel, with ornamental elements of foundry and forge. The doors are situated in the chamfers and the centres of each facade.
Kiosks Designed by Simon Dance Design
It doesn't have to be said how much this design by both Dance and Mora elaborates on Antonio Gaudi's previous designs at the Sagrada Familia and elsewhere. The fanciful and airy trusswork interplaying with a colorful usage of lighting (as shown below) should be enough to convey just that.
The Interplay of Steel Columns, Light Trusses, Roofing and Bridging
Axonometric of the Mercado de Colon
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