This concept of the Haitang Bay flower arches over the entire project, encasing two separate retail buildings in an organic glass shell with undulating roofscape formed of glass and aluminium panels. In the centre of this is a large entranceway spanning 50m supported by a series of 35m high steel arches.
Within the 125,000 sq m complex, a vast number of top-end and flagship stores are clustered around thematic inner courtyards with latticework voids which extend down from the glazed roof. Central inner atria are designed to maximise natural lighting and improve building natural ventilation.
The main building double-skin facade is facing the city street and, in order to offer the maximum visibility to the flagship stores in the front, it has been designed using full glazing structural glass facade. The rest of the facade all over the buildings is a composition of glass panels for showcase and full aluminum panels.
As China is one of the fastest growing economies they have the benefit of utilising the latest technologies when it comes to design and build, as such French practice, Valode et Pistre Architecture (VP Architectes) won an international competition to create this retail oasis covering some 125,00m2.
Based on the form of the Haitang Bay flower (not unlike Grant Associates Gardens by the Bay in Singapore inspired by the orchid, their national flower), the organic, undulating glass structures will be double-skinned to maximise natural daylight which is further utilised by the inclusion of an atrium. Thus energy consumption should be reduced and inner ventilation increased by the interior garden.
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