On June 28, 1935, a public vegetable market east of Sanshui Street, Wanhua District, Taipei (formerly known as monga) was completed and put into use. With the sudden increase in the population of Taipei City, this "Xinfu Town Food Sales Market" (later renamed Xinfu Market) entered its peak and became an important living area for residents in Wanhua area at that time. Later, due to the rise of Huannan Market and peripheral business districts, and the legalization of vendors on Dongsanshui Street, Xinfu Market suffered a huge impact and gradually declined.
When you come to the periphery of Xinfu market, you won’t feel that it has fallen. Because it is now surrounded by the later expanded Dongsanshui Street Market, the citizens are still flowing in a constant stream, and the ingredients are sold are full of dazzling.
Horseshoe-shaped building is the essence of Xinfu Market, and now it still has its modern side.
This is a vegetable market that has been preserved until today during the Japanese occupation in Taipei, and it is also the earliest planned public market in Taipei. Although the history is long, the Xinfu Market was actually a rather avant-garde building when it was built. At that time, most of the houses here were almost made of wood sheds, while Xinfu Market was the only one made of steel and cement.
Air conditioning and other ventilation equipment had not yet been released at that time. In order to solve the needs of lighting and ventilation, Xinfu Market was built in a horseshoe-shaped shape. A drainage canal was dug along the horseshoe-shaped shape on the ground, a patio was opened in the center of the market, and windows were dug out from the walls around it, and 9 vents were placed on the roof, so that the sanitary conditions of the market were in line with the policy needs of the 1930s.
Central patio provides natural lighting to the market, and many windows have been dug around the building for ventilation.
In July 2006, Xinfu market entities and nearby administrator offices and dormitory spaces were designated as Taipei City monuments, and the monument restoration project was completed in 2013. The following year, Taiwan Zhongtai Construction obtained the 9-year operating rights of the market and entrusted its Feiying Profit Organization Zhongtai Architecture Culture and Art Foundation to implement the revitalization plan, becoming the third "urban fruit core plan" after the "urban art district" and "zhongshan creative base". Since then, the rebirth plan for this 80-year-old market has finally begun.
Walk into the market and you will find that the ground is high from the middle, which is convenient for sewage to be concentrated into the canal along the building direction to keep the ground dry.
This U-shaped structure is the central patio for providing lighting.
The market will be equipped with dining tables schools, cultural schools, community herb gardens, Wanhua cultural and historical collection rooms, public living room history displays, creative collaboration spaces, compound catering areas, etc., to transform the Xinfu market from the market to cultural venues and become a communication space for creative workers. In other words, this old market will no longer buy groceries, but will sell culture in the bank.
The administrator's office and dormitory outside the market are built during the Japanese occupation period and have a very Japanese architectural style. Now it has become a historical site in Taipei City with market entities.
This Japanese-style house includes an office, living room, storage room, tea room, bathroom and kitchen. The entire house trunk is built with a height of 60 cm for air circulation and moisture protection.
Taking advantage of the 80th anniversary of Xinfu Market, Zhongtai Architecture and Culture and Art Foundation wrote the "Xinfu 80 Good Food" exhibition last year.
Artist Chen Yongxian interviewed 6 local elders and used the image to record their memories with Xinfu Market.
During the exhibition, the audience will visit along the horseshoe-shaped route, and the stalls on both sides use video materials to lead the audience to understand the Xinfu Market.
exhibition displays many old market items and shows the human touch of the new rich market at that time.
- 1. Cross-border Studio -
In order to better create the regeneration of the old market based on traditional culture, U-mkt has opened up an entry platform where different cross-border creativity can communicate and link with each other. The "small studio" model is suitable for office, exhibition or studio use, and is available for entry every year.
"Co-Studio" provides people with flexible work arrangements with a free and relaxed work space where different ideas can collide. In order to protect historic buildings, the space decoration uses light materials that are easy to disassemble, so that they can live with old buildings.
- 2. Learning food culture together -
Reshape regional life by digging deep into the essence of traditional food culture. It can be said to be the most unique feature of U-mkt. To this end, two learning spaces are set up here, "Dining Table School" and "Lianzi Classroom". Through thematic and series of academic programming, the knowledge experience inside and outside the vegetable market is brought in, reshaping the relationship between people and life, while also bringing the relationship between people closer.
- 3. Interactive permanent exhibition -
From photography, video device and new media interactive works display, to outdoor painted landscape and space regeneration, local youth and creative round table discussion, to fruit and vegetable creation workshops, meal production parent-child activities, popular private kitchen and cooking classes, opening concerts... Various permanent exhibition activities not only attract people with old market memories to nostalgia, but also attract a large number of young people to pay attention to the issues of local food culture and regional regeneration, and use this to experience new possibilities for life.
- 4. Tomorrow Coffee MOTCafé -
Using one side of the U-shaped space, the Taiwan coffee chain Tomorrow Coffee MOT Café settles here, integrating regional cultural characteristics into the space design.
(Article source: Mars's good place to live)
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