LOCATION

SERRAMAR PAQUE SHOPPING MALL SAO PAULO STATE BUILDING VIEW WITH RESPECT TO SURROUNDING.

Ø ARCHITECT - AFLALO
AND GASPERINI
ARCHITECTS

Ø LOCATION -
CARAGUATATUBA,
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL
CARAGUATATUBA
Ø BUILT AREA - 30,3033
SQM.

Ø SITE AREA - 119,000

SQM.

Ø YEAR –
NOVEMBER, 2011

Ø CONCEPT NOTE –
• Tried to create an open place integrated
with nature, denying the concept of a
closed mall.
• Thus created inner squares lined with a
distinctive design living space, and all
around arranged the shops in a
fragmented way.
• The fragmented access acts as wind
channels, ensuring air flow in the
corridors of the mall.
• The blocks of stores have a pure form,
having one of its faces inclined, working • Climate : warm and humid.
as a shading to the facade which is more MOUNTAINS
exposed to sunlight • Site : formerly an old farm house.

The Serramar Shopping • View : Mountains on N side & sea on S-E of the site
mall constitutes - stream on N-E side.
• 100 stores, including
anchors, megastores • Wind direction : Southeast to North.
and satellite stores .
• Hypermarket. • The mall was divided into blocks, with a dynamic deployment
• Home center. N that creates gaps between buildings and ensures cross air
circulation, making maximum use of natural ventilation and the
• Food court with fast sea breeze.
networks food and
restaurants, • The stream, located next to the project was expanded, making it
• Four movie theaters a pleasant contemplation area to the green.
•1,000 parking spaces. SITE.
•An open space integrated with nature concept was adopted,
different from the concept of a closed mall.
Ø This shopping mall is located in Caraguatatuba, a seaside town in São Paulo state, Brazil
•An opened ground floor mall with planted wooded courtyards
Ø The proposal for this project was to develop a mall for tourists and also for the residents in the Northern Coast of Sao was developed to compliment and highlight the beach climate.
Paulo State.

Ø Caraguatatuba being a coastal city, the first aspect considered in the design was its location. The land on which it is built
was an undeveloped region of the city with front for a boulevard and an extra 600 meters offset from the sea.

Ø The stream, located next to the project was expanded, making it a pleasant contemplation area to the green.

Ø The fact of being in aseaside town with large arid, treeless area
SEA
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 DESIGNING • Yellow bamboo louvers are used to
provide shade and protection to
PLAN circulation areas.

• Timber has also been used to cover walkways

from the parking to the built up area. The use
wood and bamboo compliments the wooden
tones found in the inner squares of the mall.

• The finish of the blocks that make up the

mall is simple, consisting of textured
monolithic mass and covered with a
brown metal plate detail.

• The use of transparent glass on the wide

windows especially on the food court gives a
good view to the Mountains and the stream.

• The floor of malls will be in portuguese mosaic

with polishing near the windows, and an exposed
concrete ceiling.

• Additional balcony, bamboo, giving a warm

Aesthetic sense.

• The food court has a porcelain tile that mimics

wood, decking cumaru wood will be integrated
into the square and brings a viewpoint of the lake,

• The placement of the supermarket and Cinemas is after the entry points which • The bathrooms are in white Granite and the
show a vision where the people need not go around the whole mall if they want to lining of the blocks will be a textured monocapa.
use these facilities.

• Administration is placed near the main entry of the mall through the main road
gate.

• Staff area is allocated in the Western end of the plan, which gives them their own
space.

• The food court is placed in the North, giving it the view of the landscape and the
stream thus making it a viewpoint for the visitors.

SECTION -A

• Sun shading is provided by slanting of the faces of East and

West facing facades such that they protrude past the wide
windows.
• This keeps the form simple without clutter in sun-shading
elements that would otherwise seem too much in the design of
a shopping mall.

ROADSIDE VIEW

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DESIGNED BY, THE CAPITAL, BKC
JAMES LAW + Associates.

BUILT IN
~ 2008-2012

HEIGHT
~ 61.26 m

FLOORS
~ 6 Basements
+ Ground
+ 19 Floors

ELEVATORS
~ 18

FUNCTIONS
~ Offices & Restaurants

FOOT FALL PER DAY

~ 2000 office staff
~ 400 visitors

AREA (SQ. FT.)

~ 1200000
LOCATION
Bandra, Mumbai India
SPACES
• 6 levels Basement – Car parking (~1000 cars) THE PLAN FEATURES –
• G + 2 levels – Restaurants & Offices
• 2 to 18 levels – Offices 1) A central core as public space which is accessible for all
• An atrium – 3 levels and which leads to the sky lobby on the 3rd floor.
2) The structure is divided in sort of 2 wings, left and right,
which has a central service area inclusive of lift, lift
THE CAPITAL lobbies, fire escapes and washrooms.
CONCEPT 3) The visitors can visit up to the 3rd floor, where each floor
• Comprehensive sustainable concept of form and function have has a different restaurant, thus dividing the pupil.
Offices Restaurants
inspired the design of the building and its urban context as never Staircase, Lifts and
before in India. Escalators
Restrooms/ Washrooms
• The “Cybertecture” is the ultimate expression of innovative art
married with functional needs, taking into consideration the THE PLAN FEATURES
environment and humanity. –
• This is the philosophy of the architect James Law, a combination of
innovation and technology with the urban fabric of a conscious and
1) From this floor
environmentally sustainable manner. onwards no public
can access and its
Offices
only for the people Staircase, Lifts and
working in the office. Escalators
2) The central service Restrooms/ Washrooms
core is retained and 4th Floor Plan
an office space is
provided above the
Atrium. 4) 5th Floor plate onwards there is a provision of open space, which are used
3) Each office space as Refuge Areas on the 7th, 10th, 13th, and 16th floor.
has their own set of
washrooms allotted 5) These open spaces are for the people of the office space which is
in a common space. connected to it, where the occupants use it as a rejuvenating space.

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THE PLAN FEATURES –

1) The oval projection

starts from the 6th floor
and ends on the 13th
floor.

2) This oval area is used in

office space except on
the floors where it is
used as refuge areas.

3) The last three

floors have larger
office spaces than
those on the Negative Spaces used for
floors below. Asthetic purpose

SKY LOBBY
• The space provided for the visitors and
occupants for meetings and interaction.
• There are small café’s and vending
machines here.
• The café’s here use inductions and
microwave to cook and their vents are
mechanical chimneys.

SIGNAGES

FIRE ESCAPE
• A 2M wide staircase as the fire escape
BACK ENTRANCE FOR LOADING / UNLOADING • Each floor signages were provided with fire ducts
Each floor in the fire
• There were motion sensor lights which had been installed in the
• It has a 4.5M wide pathway where loading/unloading from the escape had these fire
fire escape
vehicles happens. hydrants
• It followed the norms in terms of width, push open doors.
• There were speakers installed even in the fire escape for
• The staff of the restaurants which have their entry/exits from this announcements during emergency and music that played during
side also access the structure from here. non panic times.

• All the service pipelines and vents open out on this side

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