dead malls: suburban activism, local spaces, global logistics pdf

A ‘Sliding category scale’ orients you to the general area of choice. ‘Way finding’ in the Slim Fit Mall is made easy. Optimal relationships evolve and are adjusted over time via purchasing feedback.

Accessories that relate to respective categories punctuate the sections, while complementary garments are adjacent to them. PANTS, PANTS, PANTS > If it’s just pants you wish to buy, then you can surround yourself with every two-legged option one could ask for: casual, used, formal, fitness, denim, leather, leopard, rubber, rubber-leopard, bermuda, low, tight, Tommy, loose, hip-huggers, Levis Ralph Lauren, one-off’s, studded, imports.etc. A new way of establishing the necessary critical mass is achieved by product-grouping In the Slim Fit Mall, the traditional notion of the anchor is dissolved. these smaller tenants in turn, generate the major-ity of the mall’s income. Generic mall mall area - excess = slim fit mallANCHORS AWAY! > In regional Centers, anchors create the critical mass necessary to support smaller tenants. “We look towards the convention center (super-performer), a schedule driven indexical surface which samples the speed and diversity of cultural innovation.” “There is no progress in renovation, re-theming, or re-facading, there is only potential in re-thinking: rethink its relationship with the city.” By purposefully rejecting the traditional catchment typology, this mall “engineers an emergent model of ‘hyper-urbanism’.” “We imagine our mall more like Woodstock, an enthusiastic city of 150,000 people per 24 hour period - 54,000,000 people per year.” In an ongoing effort to simultaneously track and then fabricate culture, the entrants propose to create a terrain which engenders and continually adapts to the energy of capitalist flows - producing architectural strategies which imagine new public realms that erupt out of “culture(s) of productive friction(s).” Unlike strategies of themed place-making, this proposal offers an alternative, anticipatory model for the mall by re-thinking urbanism at a larger scale, recasting place-making and the idea of urban life in the form of a mall. Surrendering to what the entrants describe as weak cultural symbols of “hyper-extremes, Moore’s law of computing power, the ubiquitous sound byte, plastic surgery, celebrity boxing, and Jeff Koons,” the entrants seek an architecture that can respond more nimbly to the demands of the retail / entertainment / culture industry. Thomsonw/ Heather Flood, Sameena Sitabkhan, Gavin Farley Statistical ProjectionHawthorne Mall, Hawthorne, CAĬentral Office of ArchitectureEric Kahn, Ron Gobin, Russell N.

Dead malls: suburban activism, local spaces, global logistics pdf