Renewing Fish Market
Erneuerung Fischmarkt Hamburg
Erneuerung Fischmarkt Hamburg
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Summer Semester | 2022
Master-Thesis
Because of the city's rising population, Hamburg has planned a huge number of new residential buildings to serve the future generation. As a result, more infrastructure, social and cultural spaces, public spaces, recreational facilities, and other amenities will be needed to support the community and people's well-being. Climate change must also be considered in order to develop a long-term solution.
The Renewing Fish Market Hamburg Project intends to revitalize the neglected historic neighborhood and maximize its potential, to be a modern natural-cultural oasis, which will play an important role in improving the community. The strategy has been to understand the development's potential from both a cultural and functional perspective to develop a new fish market building typology and a new public space typology comprehending the context condition and promoting sustainability, showing how to live with a water.
The Fish Market, which is presently held every Sunday at a parking lot near the Elbe River, is one of the city's most important communities and tourist attractions. This project's approach is to establish a fish market that is much more than a fish market. The project will serve several functions, including an operating fish market, a public amenity, a cultural attraction, an urban connection, and an inspirational landmark along Hamburg's famed waterfront.
The concept intends to connect the water with the entire neighborhood through this cultural icon by enriching Hamburg's public waterfront with new features. The Fish Market Hamburg will stimulate interaction by integrating a vast public space with an authentic market. It will also improve the promenade area by revitalizing a public walkway along the water's edge that is lively, sustainable, and sympathetic to the surroundings.
Furthermore, the goal is to find a creative solution that requires the market's applicable standard to sit within and become an integrated part of the expansion of the harbor network and Hamburg's public waterfront area. The task will be to modernize and improve the site while retaining an authentic experience that attracts customers and visitors. The new emerging development will provide a sense of both freshness and nostalgia.
The new facility will function as a link, a new community hub for the Altona area, connecting future activities while conserving historic waterfront activities. The design incorporated a sustainable approach, hybrid timber construction, and a grid system. The lower part was designed to be floodable, while the upper part, due to its unique feature, can change all the time depending on the atmosphere. Its contemporary architecture style and unique appearance will impress visitors and remind them of the Elbe River and Hamburg's iconic Sunday Fish Market.
The programs are divided into four major areas. The first group is the combination of existing and new functions. Like the Sunday fish market, parking spaces will accompany the waterfront park, promenade, and plaza to create public leisure space for the community. The second group is an extension of the fish market to provide more spaces and flexibility for other uses as well. The third group we're talking about is the Altona community center which consists of a museum, art exhibition, event hall, office, workshop, library & coworking spaces that are accessible to everyone. The last group is a restaurant, bar, and cafe that will help attract people to visit, use the building, and stay longer.
The concept idea is to solve the problems within its context while creating new functions and uses with the standard requirements for the town, enhancing the quality of people's lives, whether they're outsiders or insiders. At the same time, generating the identity that will provoke the area and give a new life to the place, inviting the users to get a unique experience in the town's waterfront area. By exploring new ways of blending the significant market passageway into the new building, ramps serve as the floor and function connector, with regular straight vertical access for regular use. The function can be crossed by creating mostly a non-boundary flexible space.
The site plan depicts how the proposed riverside development will affect the surroundings while also serving as a connector between the inner city to the north and the Elbe River to the south. The first feature is a building on legs located in the west, allowing people to pass through the space without entering the building. The second part is an elevated walkway that runs along the river and connects the old dike and the new building, creating more public space for recreational activities in the town.
