The project is a food market for downtown Chicago that integrates adaptive performances and recording spaces for jazz musicians, looking to revive a street culture lost through the sprawling of the city. By the tinkering of a kinetic architecture, the market transforms daily into an immersive music hall.

Imagined as a playground for city dwellers and a shelter for jazz musicians, the programmatic contradictions play out through an architecture of mediation. The prototypical timber and steel frame is carefully weighted and calibrated to balance, shift and reconstruct the differing spatial conditions that market trading and musical performances necessitate.