ARCH 432 - FALL 2025
STUDENT
Emily Xu
PROFESSOR
Mick Kennedy
The Echo Market is a multifunctional market hall and community center that seeks to compose parallel lanes of program operating independently within interlocked masses. This project also examines the bisecting and connecting effects of inbetween space, despite the partition of programs.
Situated between the two distinct cultural communities of the Mexican American Pilsen and the Chinese American Chinatown in Chicago, the Echo Market serves as an inbetween space itself: a venue for connection, communication, exchange, and echoing of both materials and cultural manifestations. The market aspires to redefine the urban and social landscape by functioning as a point of intersection.