Kampung Baru Market Hall

Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur

A competition design for a covered market under a raised timber roof.

A raised timber roof on slender steel columns sheltering market stalls, with towers in the distance.

The market hall from the street corner.

Type

Civic and cultural

Status

Competition, shortlisted

Place

Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur

Year

2024

Area

1,350 m² / 14,530 ft²

Client

Open competition

Team

Daniel Cho, Ada Okoro, Hana Ishikawa

Images

AI-generated imagery

Brief

An open competition for a covered market with 60 stalls, a food court and a space for community events.

Site

A corner site in an old neighborhood of timber houses, now surrounded by towers.

Approach

A raised timber roof floats above the stalls on slender steel columns, so air moves freely underneath. Rain is collected in a central channel and kept for washing down. Stalls are simple timber frames that traders can fit out themselves.

Outcome

Shortlisted, 2024, with Studio Rimba of Kuala Lumpur as local partner.

Plan, 1:200

Raised view under the edge of the timber roof over a regular grid of market stalls and aisles.

Under the roof edge, over the stalls.

Elevation view of the long raised timber roof on slender steel columns, with a gap for air between roof and stalls.

The roof on its columns.

Section through the roof, 1:100

Looking up at the glulam timber roof grid on slender dark steel columns, with the central rain channel running down the middle.

An empty timber stall with a crate and woven baskets under the high glulam roof grid on slender dark steel columns.

The market at dusk from the street, rows of plain timber tables under the raised timber roof with warm lights hanging beneath.

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