asheville marketplace

Educational Architecture Work

The Asheville Marketplace was a mid semester project given to my design studio during the Fall Semester of my Junior Year. It was meant as a charrette to get us to start thinking about our Final Semester project. The brief detailed that we were meant to create an open & public Marketplace, in Downtown Asheville, that could attract the diverse cultures in Asheville and be enjoyable to all.

My goal was to communicate the idea of entering a different place and create a threshold condition within the market place. I initially decided on going with a campus structure for my marketplace. But then I realized that the site lacked placement so I took inspiration from the I-240 Highway located close to the site and used that to influence my design. In between the buildings, I created “highways” that had extruded columns underneath that would be used to showcase artwork and also create open space covered space on the site.

sketches done based on analysis of site & asheville