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Open-Air Multi-Level Retail Canopies with Overhead Steel Trusses

A layered, porous commercial complex organizes pedestrian circulation across multi-tiered elevated walkways, bridging walkways, and integrated landscape beds beneath a wide-span overhead steel roof truss. Full-height glazed storefronts set behind slender steel railings and sheltered overhangs receive filtered daylight, creating an airy, indoor-outdoor shopping environment animated by dappled sunlight and mature planting.

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Multi-level open-air commercial or civic walkway under a large sheltering steel roof by OFFICE MASS.

曼景建筑-5

上海

An open-air multi-level circulation precedent featuring bridging walkways and integrated trees beneath a vast protective steel canopy.

What we like about this project
Mature trees grow directly through multiple levels of the open-air deck system.

Materials

  • steel
  • glass
  • concrete
  • timber

Visual identifiers

  • floating-roof
  • open-air-walkways
  • bridge-circulation
  • integrated-planting

Style tags

  • contemporary
  • porous
  • open-air

Visual tags

  • semi-outdoor
  • multilevel
  • commercial
  • public-realm
  • roof-canopy
Geometry
Multi-tiered walkways, bridges, and staircases weaving through an open-air volume beneath an overarching floating roof plane supported by slender columns.
Facade system
Full-height glazed storefronts set behind open-air walkways and slender steel railings.
Structural guess
Slender steel columns supporting a wide-span overhead steel roof truss and concrete floor plates.
Spatial scale
Large multi-story public or commercial complex scaled for pedestrian movement and gathering.
Lighting
Late-afternoon sunlight casting long shadows and warm highlights across glass facades, planters, and walkways.
Atmosphere
Airy, shaded, and alive with filtered daylight and integrated vegetation.
Environmental context
Outdoor-integrated semi-covered circulation zone with incorporated mature trees and lush planters.
Spatial experience
A porous, layered circulation experience that dissolves the boundary between indoors and outdoors, moving across bridges and terraces under deep shelter.
Composition rhythm
Repeating slender vertical steel columns and baluster railings establish a measured cadence across stacked horizontal circulation layers.
Style reading
Contemporary porous urban architecture
Program
Commercial retail or mixed-use public complex
Perspective
Interior Spatial
Discipline
architecture
Materials
steel, glass, concrete, timber
Visual identifiers
floating-roof, open-air-walkways, bridge-circulation, integrated-planting
Style tags
contemporary, porous, open-air
Visual tags
semi-outdoor, multilevel, commercial, public-realm, roof-canopy
Geometry
Multi-tiered walkways, bridges, and staircases weaving through an open-air volume beneath an overarching floating roof plane supported by slender columns.
Facade system
Full-height glazed storefronts set behind open-air walkways and slender steel railings.
Structural guess
Slender steel columns supporting a wide-span overhead steel roof truss and concrete floor plates.
Spatial scale
Large multi-story public or commercial complex scaled for pedestrian movement and gathering.
Lighting
Late-afternoon sunlight casting long shadows and warm highlights across glass facades, planters, and walkways.
Atmosphere
Airy, shaded, and alive with filtered daylight and integrated vegetation.
Environmental context
Outdoor-integrated semi-covered circulation zone with incorporated mature trees and lush planters.
Spatial experience
A porous, layered circulation experience that dissolves the boundary between indoors and outdoors, moving across bridges and terraces under deep shelter.
Composition rhythm
Repeating slender vertical steel columns and baluster railings establish a measured cadence across stacked horizontal circulation layers.
Style reading
Contemporary porous urban architecture
Program
Commercial retail or mixed-use public complex
Perspective
Interior Spatial
Discipline
architecture

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Multi-level open-air commercial or civic walkway under a large sheltering steel roof by OFFICE MASS.

曼景建筑-5

上海

An open-air multi-level circulation precedent featuring bridging walkways and integrated trees beneath a vast protective steel canopy.

What we like about this project
Mature trees grow directly through multiple levels of the open-air deck system.

Materials

  • steel
  • glass
  • concrete
  • timber

Visual identifiers

  • floating-roof
  • open-air-walkways
  • bridge-circulation
  • integrated-planting

Style tags

  • contemporary
  • porous
  • open-air

Visual tags

  • semi-outdoor
  • multilevel
  • commercial
  • public-realm
  • roof-canopy
Geometry
Multi-tiered walkways, bridges, and staircases weaving through an open-air volume beneath an overarching floating roof plane supported by slender columns.
Facade system
Full-height glazed storefronts set behind open-air walkways and slender steel railings.
Structural guess
Slender steel columns supporting a wide-span overhead steel roof truss and concrete floor plates.
Spatial scale
Large multi-story public or commercial complex scaled for pedestrian movement and gathering.
Lighting
Late-afternoon sunlight casting long shadows and warm highlights across glass facades, planters, and walkways.
Atmosphere
Airy, shaded, and alive with filtered daylight and integrated vegetation.
Environmental context
Outdoor-integrated semi-covered circulation zone with incorporated mature trees and lush planters.
Spatial experience
A porous, layered circulation experience that dissolves the boundary between indoors and outdoors, moving across bridges and terraces under deep shelter.
Composition rhythm
Repeating slender vertical steel columns and baluster railings establish a measured cadence across stacked horizontal circulation layers.
Style reading
Contemporary porous urban architecture
Program
Commercial retail or mixed-use public complex
Perspective
Interior Spatial
Discipline
architecture
Materials
steel, glass, concrete, timber
Visual identifiers
floating-roof, open-air-walkways, bridge-circulation, integrated-planting
Style tags
contemporary, porous, open-air
Visual tags
semi-outdoor, multilevel, commercial, public-realm, roof-canopy
Geometry
Multi-tiered walkways, bridges, and staircases weaving through an open-air volume beneath an overarching floating roof plane supported by slender columns.
Facade system
Full-height glazed storefronts set behind open-air walkways and slender steel railings.
Structural guess
Slender steel columns supporting a wide-span overhead steel roof truss and concrete floor plates.
Spatial scale
Large multi-story public or commercial complex scaled for pedestrian movement and gathering.
Lighting
Late-afternoon sunlight casting long shadows and warm highlights across glass facades, planters, and walkways.
Atmosphere
Airy, shaded, and alive with filtered daylight and integrated vegetation.
Environmental context
Outdoor-integrated semi-covered circulation zone with incorporated mature trees and lush planters.
Spatial experience
A porous, layered circulation experience that dissolves the boundary between indoors and outdoors, moving across bridges and terraces under deep shelter.
Composition rhythm
Repeating slender vertical steel columns and baluster railings establish a measured cadence across stacked horizontal circulation layers.
Style reading
Contemporary porous urban architecture
Program
Commercial retail or mixed-use public complex
Perspective
Interior Spatial
Discipline
architecture

Related in this portfolio

View 曼景建筑 OFFICE MASS →