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Mall

Mall - 3 Areas

picture left: ATP / picture right: wolf leeb | architektur | fotografie

Upon entering the building visitors immediately become engaged in a spatial "discussion", which allows them to instrumentalise the space in the sense of an urban shopping context. These urban shopping elements are separated into three mall areas, with each meeting point between malls being marked by a Plaza. The sensual urban form and detailed design of these plazas owe much to the interesting geometrical possibilities offered by the triple cone form.

pictures: WESTGATE Shopping City
Special attention was paid to the question of natural lighting. Long slots in the ceilings of the malls come together in the three glass roofs over the plazas. The three mall areas take their themes from three distinct Croatian landscape types: coastline, mountains and the Pannonian plain.

As well as improving orientation, the use of these three themes also helps to entertain and surprise - as well as enhance the shopping experience of - visitors and customers.

This integration into our architecture of the notions of TOPOS and MAN creates emotional added value in all phases of the design process.

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