The suburban commons
Virginia Santilli (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
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Abstract
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.