20140501_10 DESIGN_Summer International_Shopping Mall IV by 10 Design

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商业广场 4

高迪国际编 HI-DESIGN PUBLISHING

江苏科学技术出版社

SHOPPING

MALL 商业广场 4

高迪国际 HI-DESIGN PUBLISHING 编

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Location / Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, China

SUMMER INTERNATIONAL RETAIL AND ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE 世邦国际商业购物城

The site of the development is unique in this important growing city, as it is the meeting

With the secret garden as its centerpiece, the retail F&B and entertainment hubs are

point between the grid of the city and the natural topography of the surrounding hill range.

organized around this public space animating and linking the external spaces. All the retail

The design of the development takes inspiration from this with a dynamic “urban super wall”

malls are linked via a sequence of internal bridge connections and external terraces to provide

defining the sites edge with the urban grid. The super wall is made up of series of giant,

a seamless, connected retail experience. A range of retail experiences will be provided in

stacked stone, steel and LED blocks that are stacked to open and cantilever out across the

the development including an i-max cinema, KTV, food court, high end F&B, entertainment

street. The LED blocks acts as media and light entry gateways and break out points. These

gaming, supermarket and department stores together with small scale retail units.

gates within the wall reveal the softer organic, planted terrace building and street forms within

Large-scale public plazas are located at key gateways to the south and West animated with

like a giant secret garden. The terraces within the heart of the site are sculpted to reflect the

dynamic cascading and interactive landscaped water features connecting the multiple site

flow of pedestrian movement through the site along undulating terraced valleys that open to

levels. These gateways are the meeting points of the urban super wall and softer terrace

create external plazas and close to create intimate shaded courtyards.

language beyond. Their form is designed to welcome visitors to the development and sweep

At the centre of the “secret garden” lies a sequence of elevated public terraces surrounding

them into the retail and F&B terraces beyond. This softer terrace architecture is amplified with

multi-level external stage and entertainment areas. This central plaza is shaded by a series of

interactive LED, signage, and planting. The close integration of architecture and landscape

interactive canopies supplementing the space. These canopies can be used to project onto

provides a seamless, connected visitor experience linking all major public plazas and external

and as a large scale uplighters at night they become a beacon and major attractor for the

recreation areas.

development both.

Architect

Firm

Architecture Design Team

Gordon Affleck

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Gordon Affleck, Jamie Webb, Bernice Kwok, Kevis Wong, Nick Chan, Jason Easter, Francisco Fajardo, Yao Ma, Yao Yap, Brian Fok, Nick Benner, Mike Kwok, Colin Ashton, Ru Chen, Xuan He, Ryan Leong, Alicia Johannesen

Landscape Design Team

Client

Area

Ewa Koter, Joyce Zan, Matthew Younger, Shingrong Wu

Summer Industry Group

510,000 m2 (GFA), 360,000 m2 (Retail)

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