Adapting a Dutch postwar shopping mall to user’s contemporary needs: A circular community pavilion
E.M. Maarleveld (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
W.L.E.C. Meijers – Mentor (TU Delft - Heritage & Architecture)
F.W.A. Koopman – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Heritage & Architecture)
M.T.A. van Thoor – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Heritage & Architecture)
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Abstract
The mall was initially conceived as a community centre where people could converge for shopping, cultural activity, and social interaction. Nowadays, one lives generally in a consumer society where leisure is predominantly used to acquire goods or services. These might not reflect the complexity of users’ contemporary needs in functions such as shopping malls. A sign of this mismatch is that Dutch sixties malls face issues such as vacancy and deterioration. There is an opportunity for them to be adapted and redesigned to match socio-economic values. This research aims to determine if the Dutch postwar shopping mall typology is suitable for the contemporary needs of the users. If otherwise, a values-based redesign proposal will be developed with the users’ participation, which can be replicated to some extent for other cases in other contexts.