Reopening Seven
Sisters Market
Research
& strategy
Urban design
3D design
Solution
We spent weeks getting to know the area and locals, and received a great amount of feedback about the lack of children's spaces and the importance of the younger generations using the market space. So, we pitched a series of third space ideas for generations to come together in within the market, with a focus on advertising it as a kid-friendly space. It used to be an area of social buzz as well as commerce, and this was largely down to intergenerational relationships.
My part of this strategy consisted of a dynamic and modular infrastructure concept, using delivery produce crates. The market's fruit and veg traders receive their produce in crates each morning, and eventually have to pay to get rid of them. This concept reuses them on-site to build a range of social infrastructure from adult and baby-sized seating, to games crates and football goals to celebrate Brazilian football culture, and even miniature market stalls for children to play alongside their parents. I designed a range of attachments that fix the crates in various ways to make this possible, and can be constructed by the public themselves.
Contribution
This was a group university live brief, working with architecture cooperative Unit 38, and community group Wards Corner Community Society. I contributed to research, idea concepting and carried out all 3D work shown below.
The first section of the market reopened in October 2025, where our work is on show!
Crafts: Rhino CAD, model making, Adobe Creative Suite, pitch presentation design.
Brief
During COVID, the Seven Sisters indoor market closed, and many South American businesses moved away. The site was owned by TFL, who were reluctant to reopen due to doubts of it’s success being restored. The architecture cooperative, Unit 38, came to Goldsmiths seeking ideas to ensure that the former community and spirit returned when it reopened. This could be done by any creative means, whether through spatial design, social interventions, graphic design or advertising.
