At the centre of Thessaloniki, next to the passage Modiano, there is the building of the New Market Modiano, that until yesterday was the roof of the wholesale meat market of the city.
Due to the singular location of the building in the commercial and the historic centre of Thessaloniki, there is a brute for its development. Its’ function is unique for the market bandwidth of the city, and the operate shops don’t fill the common needs.
More, the building’s feature is spoilt by the uses of refreshment that have predominate, and the condition of the building’ s maintenance, which thrusts itself forward the historic centre, is uninviting.
The project plans the contribution to locality’s revival throught the retension, the upgration and the resonance of the market’s commercial feature.
The intention is, on the one hand, to preserve the original funcion, by expanding the market in height, and on the other, to outpull the public turn–out by adding space’s of recreation.
The typology of the building is not changing and the shop’s arrangement remain the same, while the roof is moving upwards with reference to extend the market.
The function grid of the ground floor is reproduced on the upper storeys and it is subsumed with a variable grid, that allows the user to create the space according to his will.
The site fronts two different buildings. The one on the road Ermou is a neoclassic and the other, on the Vasileos Irakliou, is an apartment building.
At the side of Ermou, the new construction is standing behind the neoclassic, and at Vasileos Irakliou it makes a border to the buildings facet and the street’s forehead.
The shape of the new building is not directly obvious in the view from the street’s level, while the project’s case was to set off the preexistents ones. The visitor, that is gravitated to the passage, finds out the new space from the inerior .