The Taipei City First Fruit and Vegetable Wholesale Market/Wanda Fish Wholesale Market

The Taipei City First Fruit and Vegetable Wholesale Market/Wanda Fish Wholesale Market is Taiwan’s largest wholesale market, with by far the highest transaction volume for both agricultural and marine products in the country. Although it has an iconic status in Taiwan, a country known for its excellent food culture, renovation of the aging facility has been an issue for the Taipei City Government for the past 20 years and has attracted the attention of society. In addition to increasing the floor area by making the facility multistory, the renovation will dramatically improve the three functions of “food hygiene management”, “logistics”, and “tourism”. Features such as connecting the market building directly at multiple levels with the elevated roads that run around the periphery of the site will make this an enormous distribution infrastructure that transcends the category of architectural structure. The top story’s ceiling design takes the roof shape of the existing building as its motif, and while inheriting the history of the long-familiar market, it will be a sign indicating the emergence of the new market in the city.