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Central Market
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Central Market
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2021
SIZE
100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft
S H Λ D O W ‘s latest revitalisation project Central Market, located in the centre of Central District, Hong Kong, grounds on a boundaryless spatial concept, respecting the old, reinventing with the new. The carefully preserved Bauhaus building is composed of expressive horizontal lines penetrating throughout the building with Streamline Moderne style.
As one of the only pre-war markets left in Hong Kong with an intact interior, the building spans 122,000 sq. ft., a 21st-century transformation, a re-interpretation of the marketplace, with modern designs and technology forming the baseline of the transformation. Central Market has now become a plethora of cultural gathering places interweaving food experience, retail-tainment, co-working, and cultural experiences through choreographed spaces, providing a new typology of open space, and a new Playground for All experience.
Central Market represents an advancement of the local marketplace when it was first built in 1939, conglomerating 255 market stalls under a modern roof with an atrium space. The remaining traces of history have been invaluable assets to the revitalized Central Market today. The carefully preserved Bauhaus building is composed of expressive horizontal lines that penetrate throughout the building with touches of Streamline Moderne style that remains representative to the time that it was built. The unique architectural language was widely adopted in our design of the stalls and public spaces.
We were deeply inspired by both the cultural and historical importance of the Central Market to the people of Hong Kong as well as the spatial and material quality of the conserved architecture that we experienced when we first entered the building back in 2020. We hope our design can strengthen the existing spatial quality and re-establish the Central Market as a social hub for the people of Hong Kong, of which it has always been.
Unlike most heritage projects in Hong Kong, Central Market is a unique heritage initiative that expects continuous growth and changes throughout the following 10-year journey by the means of adaptive-reuse. The actual changes would only start when people start to use and interact with the space in their daily lives, participating in the events; as the public engagement of utilising Central Market is as important as the building’s revitalisation. Central Market is expected to change over time in response to the cultural fabric and neighbourhood, through sequence of cultural events, juxtaposition of local market stalls/start-ups and future technological implementations, becoming an everyday gathering place for central.
Design Concepts
Under the core design concepts of Boundaryless Spatial Experience, Green Urban Oasis, and Curated Heritage Experience, the project provides a new typology of open space, and a new Playground for All experience.
Boundaryless Spatial Experience, Connecting City Fabric
The ground floor of Central Market is interconnected between Queen Victoria Street and Jubilee Street, with the adaptation of a new boundaryless open concept, shops are designed as individual islands, walls are replaced by green partitions, weaving the retail and food experience with the heritage elements of Central Market. The central oasis opens up as a green piazza through the openness of bi-folding doors on both sides, providing an open space for both performance and events with cinematic experiences.
The connecting grand staircase is redefined as an open public cinema, fitted with interactive LED and sound-absorbing walls, blending semi-cinematic experience and new technology, to become a playground during the day, and a movie gathering place at night.
A 2,500 sq. ft. multifunctional event space is located at the first floor and extends beyond the open areas to connect the semi-outdoor public space for cultural events. With 150 open seating and 5G Wi-Fi coverage provided within Central Market, visitors can truly experience our project vision of ‘Anywhere can dine, anywhere can work, anywhere can play’.
Beyond Green Urban Oasis
The Green Urban Oasis has always been the core value of the project. Besides the green landscape at the public open space and central oasis, 700 green plants are scattered throughout the indoor spaces, extending the natural greening elements from outdoor to indoor.
400 green plants were encased white planting cubes to formulate a green air-filtrating arcade in a 24-hour corridor, a Zen threshold to the restless passersby. The whole indoor space is divided into 12 planting areas, 300 plants were used as green partitions to divide and celebrate the spaces, transforming Central Market into a Green Urban Oasis, a green landmark to the neighbourhood of Central.
Curated Heritage Experience
The concept of a Curated Heritage Experience has been introduced to integrate all the activities with goals of heritage revitalisation and giving back to the people in mind.
Central Market not only embraces the column and grids of the original built structure, but also boasts a collection of 13 original market stalls, historical red brick walls that embody the building’s history, the hanging clock of the Grand Staircase, and collections of traditional shop signs and signages. With technology and QR codes, the Curated Heritage Experience
portray the ever-changing stories of Hong Kong in a ‘hide and seek’ manner for visitors to interact with an animated history of Central Market, offering ever-changing experiences to visitors.
As one of the only pre-war markets left in Hong Kong with an intact interior, the building spans 122,000 sq. ft., a 21st-century transformation, a re-interpretation of the marketplace, with modern designs and technology forming the baseline of the transformation. Central Market has now become a plethora of cultural gathering places interweaving food experience, retail-tainment, co-working, and cultural experiences through choreographed spaces, providing a new typology of open space, and a new Playground for All experience.
Central Market represents an advancement of the local marketplace when it was first built in 1939, conglomerating 255 market stalls under a modern roof with an atrium space. The remaining traces of history have been invaluable assets to the revitalized Central Market today. The carefully preserved Bauhaus building is composed of expressive horizontal lines that penetrate throughout the building with touches of Streamline Moderne style that remains representative to the time that it was built. The unique architectural language was widely adopted in our design of the stalls and public spaces.
We were deeply inspired by both the cultural and historical importance of the Central Market to the people of Hong Kong as well as the spatial and material quality of the conserved architecture that we experienced when we first entered the building back in 2020. We hope our design can strengthen the existing spatial quality and re-establish the Central Market as a social hub for the people of Hong Kong, of which it has always been.
Unlike most heritage projects in Hong Kong, Central Market is a unique heritage initiative that expects continuous growth and changes throughout the following 10-year journey by the means of adaptive-reuse. The actual changes would only start when people start to use and interact with the space in their daily lives, participating in the events; as the public engagement of utilising Central Market is as important as the building’s revitalisation. Central Market is expected to change over time in response to the cultural fabric and neighbourhood, through sequence of cultural events, juxtaposition of local market stalls/start-ups and future technological implementations, becoming an everyday gathering place for central.
Design Concepts
Under the core design concepts of Boundaryless Spatial Experience, Green Urban Oasis, and Curated Heritage Experience, the project provides a new typology of open space, and a new Playground for All experience.
Boundaryless Spatial Experience, Connecting City Fabric
The ground floor of Central Market is interconnected between Queen Victoria Street and Jubilee Street, with the adaptation of a new boundaryless open concept, shops are designed as individual islands, walls are replaced by green partitions, weaving the retail and food experience with the heritage elements of Central Market. The central oasis opens up as a green piazza through the openness of bi-folding doors on both sides, providing an open space for both performance and events with cinematic experiences.
The connecting grand staircase is redefined as an open public cinema, fitted with interactive LED and sound-absorbing walls, blending semi-cinematic experience and new technology, to become a playground during the day, and a movie gathering place at night.
A 2,500 sq. ft. multifunctional event space is located at the first floor and extends beyond the open areas to connect the semi-outdoor public space for cultural events. With 150 open seating and 5G Wi-Fi coverage provided within Central Market, visitors can truly experience our project vision of ‘Anywhere can dine, anywhere can work, anywhere can play’.
Beyond Green Urban Oasis
The Green Urban Oasis has always been the core value of the project. Besides the green landscape at the public open space and central oasis, 700 green plants are scattered throughout the indoor spaces, extending the natural greening elements from outdoor to indoor.
400 green plants were encased white planting cubes to formulate a green air-filtrating arcade in a 24-hour corridor, a Zen threshold to the restless passersby. The whole indoor space is divided into 12 planting areas, 300 plants were used as green partitions to divide and celebrate the spaces, transforming Central Market into a Green Urban Oasis, a green landmark to the neighbourhood of Central.
Curated Heritage Experience
The concept of a Curated Heritage Experience has been introduced to integrate all the activities with goals of heritage revitalisation and giving back to the people in mind.
Central Market not only embraces the column and grids of the original built structure, but also boasts a collection of 13 original market stalls, historical red brick walls that embody the building’s history, the hanging clock of the Grand Staircase, and collections of traditional shop signs and signages. With technology and QR codes, the Curated Heritage Experience
portray the ever-changing stories of Hong Kong in a ‘hide and seek’ manner for visitors to interact with an animated history of Central Market, offering ever-changing experiences to visitors.
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