七宝万科
上海
A large-scale commercial retail complex precedent showcasing a digital media crown wrapped around a curved stone and glass massing above a civic plaza.
- What we like about this project
- The massive upper dark volume dissolves into dynamic pixelated patterns of red and blue light.
Materials
- stone
- glass
- steel
- led-screen
- concrete-paving
Visual identifiers
- curved-massing
- digital-media-facade
- stone-cladding
- retail-atrium
Style tags
- contemporary
- commercial
- megastructure
- media-architecture
Visual tags
- commercial
- retail
- urban-plaza
- media-façade
- curvilinear
- Geometry
- Curvilinear multi-tiered commercial volume featuring a stepped crown wrapped in digital media screens above horizontal stone panels and a glazed central entrance atrium.
- Facade system
- Unitized stone panel cladding, structural glass curtain wall, and integrated LED media mesh envelope.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with concrete floor slabs and long-span atrium trusses.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale multi-story retail complex towering over pedestrian figures in the foreground plaza.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky with vibrant red and blue illumination from the upper media crown and warm interior storefront lighting.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant, luminous, and energetic evening civic hub atmosphere.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban commercial district with a large paved pedestrian plaza surrounding the building base.
- Spatial experience
- Approached from a wide paved urban plaza, the monumental curved facade draws visitors toward the luminous central entrance recess.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal stone banding interrupted by vertical window ribbons and a central symmetrical glass atrium bay.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial mega-complex architecture
- Program
- Commercial shopping mall and retail center
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stone, glass, steel, led-screen, concrete-paving
- Visual identifiers
- curved-massing, digital-media-facade, stone-cladding, retail-atrium
- Style tags
- contemporary, commercial, megastructure, media-architecture
- Visual tags
- commercial, retail, urban-plaza, media-façade, curvilinear
- Geometry
- Curvilinear multi-tiered commercial volume featuring a stepped crown wrapped in digital media screens above horizontal stone panels and a glazed central entrance atrium.
- Facade system
- Unitized stone panel cladding, structural glass curtain wall, and integrated LED media mesh envelope.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with concrete floor slabs and long-span atrium trusses.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale multi-story retail complex towering over pedestrian figures in the foreground plaza.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky with vibrant red and blue illumination from the upper media crown and warm interior storefront lighting.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant, luminous, and energetic evening civic hub atmosphere.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban commercial district with a large paved pedestrian plaza surrounding the building base.
- Spatial experience
- Approached from a wide paved urban plaza, the monumental curved facade draws visitors toward the luminous central entrance recess.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal stone banding interrupted by vertical window ribbons and a central symmetrical glass atrium bay.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial mega-complex architecture
- Program
- Commercial shopping mall and retail center
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture