Communication, commerce and trade: the African market in the modernized world a few months ago – in July 2021, 47-year-old Market Cariaca caught fire in Dar Es Salama. Market,

Communication, commerce and trade: the African market in the modernized world

A few months ago – in July 2021, 47-year-old Market Cariak caught fire in Dar Es Salame. The market designed by the Tanzanian architect of the misfortune of Amuli is a central attraction – a key part of the commercial center of Dar Es-Salam. Early images New Market Cariaca shows a higher structure with six floors compared with three in the Amuli project. On social networks there were many conversations about the new design, and if the Tower typology is indeed a suitable choice, given the unpopular nature of other similar tower market halls in Dar Es-Salam.

Despite the fact that we live in an era of e-commerce and online shopping era, more informal merchants in African cities, such as Nairobi, Dar Es Salam and Accra, are still dependent on physical customers for doing business, while physical The accumulation of buyers and sellers is still an important component of trading in these cities. Since governments in the entire African continent sought to build market halls to facilitate communication between the consumer and the businessman, the typology of market halls in Africa south of Sahara tells interesting stories about the ongoing struggle between traditions and modernity.

This attempt to build the structures of market halls for modern society led to the fact that architects in Africa were looking for software influences on the traditional African markets and stylistic influences in the world of nature. And the Cariak Market in Dar Es Salame, and the Masomi's Dandaji Daily Market Atelier in Niger, for example, consider trees as a precedent for the spatial organization of markets.

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