嘉定印象城
上海
A commercial atrium precedent illustrating the integration of mature landscape trees, terraced retail levels, and a expansive glazed roof canopy.
- What we like about this project
- Full-grown canopy trees planted directly inside the multi-level shopping volume with cascading water features.
Materials
- glass
- steel
- wood
- living-plants
- stone
Visual identifiers
- interior-trees
- glass-skylight
- terraced-atrium
- escalators
Style tags
- contemporary
- biophilic
- commercial
Visual tags
- biophilic-design
- commercial-atrium
- daylit-interior
- retail-complex
- multi-level
- Geometry
- Multi-tiered terraced floor plates opening up into a soaring central atrium topped by a diagrid glass skylight.
- Facade system
- Curved structural glass curtain walls and geometric glazed roof framing.
- Structural guess
- Steel diagrid roof structure with composite concrete floor slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Monumental multi-story commercial atrium scale with full-sized interior trees and escalators.
- Lighting
- Bright, soft daylight filtering through the large glazed roof canopy, supplemented by warm interior spot lighting.
- Atmosphere
- Lush, vibrant, and light-filled, blurring the boundary between indoor retail and open-air park.
- Environmental context
- Large-scale commercial retail complex interior integrating biophilic landscape elements.
- Spatial experience
- The transition from retail promenade opens into a monumental biophilic grotto-like valley with mature trees rising through multiple stories.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical movement emphasized by rising tree trunks, escalators, and staggered terrace edges.
- Style reading
- Contemporary biophilic commercial architecture
- Program
- Commercial retail shopping mall atrium
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- glass, steel, wood, living-plants, stone
- Visual identifiers
- interior-trees, glass-skylight, terraced-atrium, escalators
- Style tags
- contemporary, biophilic, commercial
- Visual tags
- biophilic-design, commercial-atrium, daylit-interior, retail-complex, multi-level
- Geometry
- Multi-tiered terraced floor plates opening up into a soaring central atrium topped by a diagrid glass skylight.
- Facade system
- Curved structural glass curtain walls and geometric glazed roof framing.
- Structural guess
- Steel diagrid roof structure with composite concrete floor slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Monumental multi-story commercial atrium scale with full-sized interior trees and escalators.
- Lighting
- Bright, soft daylight filtering through the large glazed roof canopy, supplemented by warm interior spot lighting.
- Atmosphere
- Lush, vibrant, and light-filled, blurring the boundary between indoor retail and open-air park.
- Environmental context
- Large-scale commercial retail complex interior integrating biophilic landscape elements.
- Spatial experience
- The transition from retail promenade opens into a monumental biophilic grotto-like valley with mature trees rising through multiple stories.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical movement emphasized by rising tree trunks, escalators, and staggered terrace edges.
- Style reading
- Contemporary biophilic commercial architecture
- Program
- Commercial retail shopping mall atrium
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior