“Mercado Roma is meant to be a catalyst and detonator for the community. The market seeks to integrate local efforts and launch them from a contemporary platform rooted in cultural traditions and the collective history of a nation.”
Ignacio Cadena

Mercado Roma repurposes an industrial space formerly occupied by the well-known Bar Leon in the Colonia Roma neighborhood. The street level includes fifty-three vending stalls arranged in an organic and fluid way, reinterpreting the grid of the traditional market. The two upper levels house two restaurants and a roof deck. The project also includes and open-air space surrounded by a fully functional vertical vegetable garden from which fresh produce will be harvested to then be sold at the market, thus completing the cycle of production-distribution-retail.