http://ha3.co/project/drizzle-green-mall-8050-guy-city
The green mall is a project that intends to settle a group of standard kind of commercial stores into a sustainable living environment. This project responds to the request of an investor group, whose inspiration is focuses on new commercial developments able to feed themselves their energy consumption. That premise boosted me to develop a future commercial complex able to integrate a merchant community with a global sense of connectivity within a sustainable design building.
Developing an attractive volume for both international and local visitors plays first position into a wide list of requirements that involve expectation from landowner, possible stakeholders and inhabitants of the area. Was decided to link the main pedestrian circulation on the facade located next to the corner and along of road with lesser transit. The measurement of the project area is about of 8.230 sq. meters, everything designed in an environmentally friendly way, including a hypermarket, agrarian's marketplace, two restaurants, shops of small and medium size, and two big spaces destined for renowned anchor stores; the aforementioned disposes of four hundred car parks distributed on two story levels.
Main entrances are placed on corner, connects to a four story atrium into an astonishing elevation, that remains semi-permeable, it wrapped in two types of glass wall system: glass tension system for vertical plane; utilizing propriety Stainless Steel tensioning fittings and cross bracing. Alike the skylights are reinforced with cable tensioned rod rigging and tension trusses. What it is eye-catching from extension of the building façade is the second atrium, as a part of deconstruction of the corner, appealing trapezoid as geometrical result which summarizes a continuous exchange of gravity, this organic volume disposed for art gallery is located lengthwise and above a pond and next to the main mass, this type of passageway goes gradually opening until become in three terraces; which shapes an outdoor commercial gallery roofed by hyperboloid/parabolic shape as a sunroof.
The topping part of the building is provided with a green rooftop intended to be a meeting space. Throughout a green walkway over the roof, a local farmers market will be placed under a tensile fabric structures. The landscaping project attempts to emulate the continuity of the surrounding hills by lifting exterior surfaces as a land slope; while being harvesting rain water drainage system for non-potable use, insolation, and climate control. The GEFR aims to reduce the temperature of the building and the urban square, while the cool breeze cross the wind channels, extended throughout the ceiling-slabs. Furthermore the design has energy harnessing adding solar panels on art gallery sculpt slice and half of roof edge of the mall mass, allowing natural daylight passing through.
