Retail Center / Studio Shift
Studio Shift’s newest retail center runs along the riverside in Miyi, and its position allows it to capitalize on the naturally cleansed waters of the South Lake area. The center creates a significant public space with a direct connection to the water so the complex becomes a destination for relaxation and water-based recreation due to the favorable climate. Retail is arranged such that equipment for various watercrafts, which can be launched directly from the rental facility, line the channel while restaurants and a cafe sit along the pier.
More about the retail center after the break.
Evoking the materiality and massing of the mountainous terrain of Miyi, the three buildings are conceptually carved from one solid entity and reconnected through the public plaza. The subtractive process frames views to the surroundings. The stone-clad facade suggests weight and permanence and utilizes locally-sourced materials.
An extensive climbing wall that can be used both from the exterior and the intrior is articulated as a glass-clad void inserted into the solid mass of the structure. The south-facing plaza maximizes sun exposure as it extends outward, its edge disintegrating into the water as a series of steps enabling residents and tourists to immerse their feet in the refreshing and naturally cleansed waters of the South Lake. It is here where the descending plaza stairs meet a gradually submerged plane, providing the critical, yet casual transition from land to water-based activity.
Decide already! Are you going to be a Morphosis rip-off or a Libeskind rip-off?
angry failed designer syndrome….tick
omg this looks like suuuuchhh a frank gary bulding. or is it gery? i think its gary. i can never remember! lol!
Wait…Are the comments on ArchDaily suppose to reflect the thoughts and opinions of the people that are a part of the real-life architectural community (be it academia or professional field)?
Or is this just where we vent our personal frustrations as well as our developing levels of ignorance?
You are so hilariuos. Archadaily is full of people, that leave such “comments”. You have nothing to say, (copying, I don’t like it, lol). How old are you? Program is the first point to attack, but it seems you only look at design. SHAME.
To try to say something useful, I’d say there is quite an interesting volume play there, look at the first and second pictures, depending on where you sit the volumetry is really completely different… And there is quite a coherence between how functions develop along the project axis, coming small from the lake and “growing” towards the solid ground, and the volumetry that hosts them… Look also where the project is “closed” and where it’s “open”… And the “link” between both halves of the project is quite well treated too (look at the sections). I’d say not bad at all.
I’m agree with you BIG CRITIC, all most of the coments are made for bad or god rendering, design, but the program is not such an interes, or the relations, comunications of the building with the city, site, etc.
Renderings are only impression… Other points you mentioned should be discussed first. Don’t read a book from it’s cover. Otherwise visualisation are the same as advertisements.
Can anyone help me. I need just some exemple of retail, mall, store etc. Please.
may i add it’s hard to be original these days…
To Remmert Koolhaas: What are you talking about? When an architect decides to design fractal or deconstructivt architecture suddenly they’re copying morphosis or libeskind? It’s a shame that that type of comment finds itself at the top of this page. What happens when a rectilinear design pops up? Are they automatically copying Mies? I agree with BIG CRITIC. Before you act so critically look into the program and the design premise, this design could be brilliant.
agree with ’4′
archdaily viewers should thank ’4′
da word can be used intead of ‘copy’ is inspiration.
12:06 PM Dec 8th
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