Ngunnawal
ACT
An Australian industrial vernacular applied to a European-style market hall at the Capital Food Markets in Belconnen, ACT. The hall is solid and highly adaptable, simple and robust in form yet elegantly textured. Despite the large size of the building, human scale remains front and centre.
The hall’s eastern periphery creates a throughfare lined with external eateries that can operate outside of market hours, and a pocket play space – these activate the public realm and create a non-commercial space that softly merges market activity and the surrounding precinct.
The hall is a result of 20 years of design thinking around the Capital Food Markets – a backdrop for urban and public life; a place to shop, gather and socialise. The hall reinforces the markets’ function as an important commercial and public place and acts as an anchor for future planned works at the site.
Byron Kelly, Design Architect
Marcus Graham, Design Architect
Mark Craswell, Project Architect
Lachlan Larney-Dawson, Student of Architecture
Envirolinks, Landscape Consultant
Indesign Access, Access Consultant
Sellick Consultants, Services Consultant
Vortex, Fire Consultant
Sellick Consultants, Structural Engineer
Lockbridge, Project Manager
ADP, Services Consultant
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