Two Bridges Gastro Flea

The goal of the Gastro Flea is to bring together and build a community by creating a venue for collective experience based around food. The building houses a Market/Eatery, a food incubator, a food co-op, a pop-up restaurant and provides education for the people of the community interested in food related start ups.

Inspired by the surrounding neighborhood buildings and art, this image depicts design elements that will influence the space throughout the gastro flea.

This diagram shows the visual and physical relationship of the site to the surrounding community.

This diagram shows the relationship of building and site elements to one another.

This diagram shows the market cycle that the design program intends to facilitate.

Sections that show the market cycle employed through programming and the repetition of perforated metal in the communicating staircase and market stalls.

Basement and Basement Mezzanine host the kitchen incubator.

Ground floor is comprised of a food market, farm market, and hydroponic shipping container farms.

Second floor is a continuation of the food market and adds education and meeting spaces.

Third floor is the neighborhood co-op grocery and administrative offices.

Fourth floor opens up into a pop-up restaurant which features incubator participants and has additional hydroponic shipping container farms on the rooftop.

Northeast exterior rendering showing community entrance to food market, along with farm market, shipping container farms, food trucks and outdoor seating.

Originally the front entrance, this serves as the formal entrance to the immediate residential community with information and way finding readily accessible inside. Perforated metal is used to delineate the existing architecture from the addition of an exterior fire staircase and to showcase local art. Art was inspired by local graffiti and intends to communicate the interconnection of programming from top to bottom.

Main Entry features a graffiti mural by LES artist, Angel Ortiz, and offers seating, way finding, physical access to upper floors and visual and physical access food market stalls.

Level 0 Reception for Food Incubator Program with Presentation kitchens and library directly behind reception and rentable incubator kitchens on the mezzanine.

Level 1 Food Market stalls and seating, featuring custom graffiti by local artists that speak to function of individual stalls. This responds to prevalence of non-english speaking demographics in the Two Bridges neighborhood.

Mexican Food Market Stall

Market Stall Details

Level 4 Pop-up restaurant that features a rotation of chefs pulled from the community, especially those who are starting their businesses in the food incubator program.

Level 4 Rooftop Shipping Container Farms which can be viewed from the pop-up restaurant, reinforcing the complete market cycle that happens at the gastro-flea.

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