002 / Saint-Henri, Montréal

HalleNord

2025BuiltAdaptive reuse — public market2,840 m²

A 19th-century rail shed reopened as a public market. Steel trusses left raw, floors poured in pigmented terrazzo, vendors housed in modular oak kiosks.

Location: Saint-Henri, Montréal
Year: 2025
Status: Built
Typology: Adaptive reuse — public market
Area: 2,840 m²
Client: Société 1881

Note 01

Halle Nord had stood empty for thirty-one years when the city tendered its renewal. The trusses were sound. The brick was sound. Everything between had to go.

Plate 02 — Kiosk frame — type detail

Note 02

Rather than introducing a new architectural language, we treated the shell as the only language. New interventions are limited to a palette of three materials: oxidized steel, white oak, and pigmented terrazzo poured in one continuous slab.

Plate 03 — Terrazzo floor and oak base

Note 03

The kiosks are demountable. Every vendor receives the same 4.8 × 2.4 metre footprint, the same oak frame, the same hardware. What they hang inside it is theirs.

Plate 04 — End wall — light at the rail door

Collaborators

— BTSL — engineering
— Studio Foin — wayfinding

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