INTERSTICE Completes Design/Build for Ghirardelli Square Holiday Market

INTERSTICE Architects designed the interior environment for this years “2014 El Mercado” Holiday Market, in partnership with local non-profit, La Cocina. The existing raw space is reconfigured using re-purposed shipping pallets and locally-sourced wine barrels to create spatial definition and material texture emphasizing the pop-up market’s retail displays.

Re-using plywood from the SF Street Food Festival, INTERSTICE re-programed the interior space for vending, seating, pathway and conversation nooks. The simple and restrained palette helps to unify the varied local crafts and holiday food selections. Festive lighting and a topographic “pallet lounge” on the second floor complete the holiday atmosphere for this year’s seasonal market place in San Francisco’s famed Ghirardelli Square.