Piazza Mercato reinterprets the market as a contemporary civic agora: a generous, porous urban field where landscape, architecture and public life merge. The covered multifunctional structure becomes the catalyst of a broader urban regeneration, organizing a system of paved and green spaces capable of hosting multiple uses and temporalities.
The market grid acts as a palimpsest, structuring flows, dimensions and access, while preserving the memory of the place and enabling a continuous spatial experience for citizens and visitors.

A new urban layer is introduced through a constellation of circular enclosures, conceived as autonomous yet interconnected “urban rooms.” These simple perimeter walls define protected courtyards with specific bioclimatic, acoustic and social characters, hosting sport, wellness, culture, leisure and food-related activities. Openable and closable, rising and lowering in section, the walls shape a playful and inclusive public landscape, adaptable to different times of day and modes of use.

Within this archipelago, the sequence of spaces unfolds from the sports patio and playground, to the water cloister and thermal bath, up to the covered rotunda of the market: an open yet sheltered hall for events, connected to a panoramic roof terrace immersed in the park. Together, these elements construct a flexible civic infrastructure, capable of fostering gathering, identification and everyday enjoyment, while allowing independent management and selective use without compromising public continuity.