Stuffy american shopping mall or chinese open air market?
The big-boxy shopping mall is a detriment to society, large interior spaces with no relationship to their contexts, endless car parks and located miles away from the city. Everything that this is of a “natural” master plan is not what it appears to be.
The Chinese culture and habits facilitates a series of open air markets and shopping centres which promote the Chinese lifestyle of being outdoors. We want to explore this as a thematic for the guiyang’s shopping centre: to orchestrate an exterior and contextual habitat as well as a large scale shopping mall.
| Project | Shopping Center | Budget | Confidential | Type | Commission |
| Size | 11.000 m2 | Client | MAD | Status | Settled 2008 |
| Location | Guiyang, China | Team | JDS | ||
| Creative Authorship | Julien De Smedt | Project Leader | Andrew Griffin, Francisco Villeda | Project Team |
Reveal list ▿ Andre Vivas, Clement Bisiuax, Coralie Pfister, Felix Luong, Hannes Wohlgemuth, Jacob Simanowitz, Li-Nan, Magda Kusowska, Maria Taboada, Pauline Lavie, Richard Doung Tu, Wolfgang Mitterer |