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Emporia Shopping Center2
Emporia Shopping Center2
LEGENDS
1.THE SEA ENTRANCE
2.CAR PARK NORTH
3.LOADING DOCK
4.CAR PARKING SOUTH
5.SEA COURT
6.HEAD SHOPPING CENTER
7.STORAGE
8.SHOPS
The rooftop park provides a welcome contrast to the busy retail environment
wind-sheltered patios are accessible from both inside and outside the building.
The hills that provide protection from the wind are actually hiding mechanical rooms
IT HAS AN AREA OF 27000M2
They created rolling hills that hide almost all the hard edges of the units’ walls and
roofs.
The hill is vegetated using Sedum plants , Decorative grasses and flowering
perennials
Its accessible from the retail space below & directly from Stations gatan.
In the future the roof will be developed with outdoor dining and a spa facility
The project consists of one two-sided Plantwall on the elevator and seven Plantwires, all 16 meters high.
Four of the Plantwires were fitted inside the stair and three outside the stair.
The idea has been to create a strong impression with plants, without occupying any floor space.
The plant installations and the stairs are also supposed to attract visitors to leave the entrance floor
CONSTRUCTION OF GLASS FACADES
The façade target was to engineer and make compatible a free 3D shape façade with a
back suspended steel structure and a laminated curved colored glass
SIZE OF GLASS PANELS : 2.712 x 3.384 and 2.879 x 1.945 and 1.018 x 5.640mm the
largest ones
804 bespoken freeform glass panels for the building.
473 of them had a yellowish butyl interlayer and the rest, 331 panels, were laminated
using a bluish one.
To curve all the glass panels, Cricursa manufactured close to 600 different moulds.
The two main drawbacks of the process are, on the one hand, the extremely high cost
and, on the second hand, the small dimensions available with current equipment
(around 2.000x3.000mm).