The suburban commons

The suburban commons

Santilli, Virginia (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Cavallo, R. (mentor)
Read, S.A. (mentor)
Jennen, P.H.M. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Explorelab

2018-08-07

In European suburban areas, shopping centres are the main attractor, socially and commercially. Overcoming the scale of small town centres and providing a common regional place, these world interiors of capital are building a new territorial identity.
Nevertheless, today online shopping is denaturating shopping centres, turning them into entertaining centres.
The project deals with very different scales to envision a future scenario for the Western European dispersed city and to frame to future the role of the mall for these territories. The suburban commons proposes a mediation between the public, the private and the collective to imagine a new regional centre that breaks the sole commercial function and provides a place to gather, a space of appearance, linked to its territory. It imagines a sustainable, convivial scenario that rethinks the shopping centre and prepares the territory for a possible post-mall phase.

Dispersed city
Suburban
Shopping centre
Commons
Role of architect
Microstories

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