Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Subjective analysis of 1 shopping mall


Bigness of the commercial building
vs
The true Public space

The man lives in a chaotic city. He wanted to take a break from a rush hour when everybody is in hurry to do things or go to work. He then enters the place where provide everything for leisure. A huge structure in the middle of the city.
 When he has a first glance on the facade, he cannot predict what activities will happen inside. What kind of space or how many of them. Due to the bigness of it. When he first enters the building. He passes through a big pathway which has many type of spaces and shops all along. He notices that there is various type of people in here. They do different activities. Some in a different type of space, some in the same. He even perceives the space that make him feel like a garden or a small park inside the building, where people can take a break from their activities and just relax. It provides skylight and trees that make you feel more intimate with the nature, unlike your absence is in an interior.
 He cannot justify the purpose of this building by a single gesture of an individual. But everyone seems to use this building as their want comfortably. When he reaches the core of it. He sees the massive circulation that make him feel like its a small city. Where people is traveling in it. Go through various spaces, experience various things. But eventually there are all in the same place. He wonders what is the meaning of BIGNESS. What is the relationship to the context. Or the subtext of it is to fuck the context? The only space that people has an interaction toward one another is at the core, if this building can be compared to the city then the core is like a park in the city.