sam gordon
DESIGN
The Ideal Market: Two Cities, Two Spaces
Almost 4,500 miles separate Washington, DC and Rome, Italy. Both cities grew and developed within drastically different contexts in eras that are separated by dozens of centuries. Open-aired marketplaces, however, are a universal public feature of most, if not all, major cities on the planet.
DC's Eastern Market and Rome's Campo de' Fiori are both lively urban spaces that share similar underlying elements. Yet, they also slightly differ as a reflection of the two very different urban contexts in which they exist.
Spread 1: The historic Campo de' Fiori marketplace, in the context of the winding urban fabric of Rome
Spread 2: The linear and planned urban fabric surrounding the Eastern Market in Washington, DC
Spread 3: A visual breakdown of the "zones of movement" that exist in the Campo de' Fiori market space
Spread 4: A visual breakdown of the exact same zones of movement that exist in Eastern Market
Spread 5, Page 1: A diagrammatic breakdown showing how the physical layout of each marketplace effects the pedestrian movement that goes through it
Spread 5, Page 2: A diagrammatic breakdown of the correlation between public/semi-public/private space and the zones of movement
Spread 6: Visual representation (pencil + watercolor) showing how the ordered layout of market stalls leads to the "ordered and linear" movement of pedestrians through Eastern Market
Spread 7: Visual representation (pencil + watercolor) showing how the non-linear layout of stalls in Campo de' Fiori encourages the "meandering" and non-linear movement of pedestrians navigating the space