By AD Editorial Team

Architects: Rojkind Arquitectos
Location: Querétaro, Roma Norte, Cuauhtémoc, 06700 Ciudad de México, DF, Mexico
Area: 1750.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Jaime Navarro

Founding Partner: Michel Rojkind
Partner: Gerardo Salinas
Design Team: Barbara Trujillo, Adrian Aguilar, Adrián Krezlik, Rodrigo Flores, Rodrigo Medina, Andrea León, Beatriz Zavala, Rosalba Rojas
Design Furniture: Alberto Villareal, Equipo: Felipe Castañeda Emiliano Godoy + Tuux
Branding Y Graphic Design: Cadena y Asociados
Structural Engineering: Maximiliano Tenenbaum Rosenfeld
Lightning: Luz y Forma
Floor Design: Cecilia León de la Barra
Vertical Orchard: Huertos Concretos

From the architect. 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 (http://www. rojkindarquitectos.com/) and conceptualized by Cadena + Asoc. Concept Design (http:// www.cadena-asociados.com/), the space is created to gather selected partners and vendors so they can offer their best products.

The space is also designed to favor encounters, exchanges, interactions and relationships making the experience a more meaningful one.

“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 histor y of a nation”. Ignacio Cadena.

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. An industrial space, formerly occupied by the wellknown Bar Leon, in Colonia Roma, has been repurposed for this project. 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 har vest 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”. Gerardo Salinas

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