Kagawa Market is a proposal to adaptively reuse the long abandoned prefectural gymnasium designed by Kenzo Tange in Kagawa, Japan. Looking to re-enable a traditional program of the Sanuki region, a public market is designed to provide much-needed open space for the community.
The project makes use of a wood-joint system that weaves into Tange’s original structure, as a tribute to his early-career interest in wooden structures. The system suspends interlocking members from existing concrete frames. The lack of additional walls and interferences with the floor enables the spatially subdividing intervention to remain light and fluid.