Dead and Dying Shopping Malls, Re‐Inhabited

Abstract

The living dead could be coming to a shopping centre near you! Zombie paintball experiences are just one of many inventive reuses of failing malls identified by architectural educators and writers Ellen Dunham‐Jones and June Williamson, who have been tracking trends in suburban retrofits for over a decade. From medical facilities to megachurches, and from offices to community colleges, they cite projects the length and breadth of the US – and beyond – that take advantage of the vast floor areas and parking facilities of these sites, and give them a sustainable future.

Transformation and Sustainable Development of Shopping Centers: Case of Czech and Slovak Cities

“…Research conducted in Sweden confirmed that consumers' out-of-town shopping would generate an excess of 60 per cent CO 2 emissions, whereas downtown and edge-of-town shopping centers are comparable [94]. Moreover, brownfields can be transformed into greener and sustainable urban places [21] or redeveloped into more sustainable ones [95].…”

Revitalisasi koridor komersial bersejarah Jalan Surabaya dengan konsep retrofitting di Kota Medan

“…Umumnya revitalisasi kawasan kota dikaitkan dengan proses peremajaan kawasan, dimana intervensi yang dilakukan dapat mencakup aspek fisik dan non-fisik, seperti ekonomi, sosial budaya, dan lain-lain (Martokusumo, 2008). Revitalisasi juga bertujuan untuk menciptakan kehidupan baru yang produktif serta mampu memberikan kontribusi positif pada kehidupan sosial budaya dan terutama kehidupan ekonomi (kawasan) kota (Martokusumo, 2006 Williamson, 2011). Terdapat tiga prinsip strategi retrofitting, yaitu: (1) Reinhabitation, yaitu penggunaan ulang bangunan dengan konsep adaptive reuse pada bangunan yang ada untuk dapat menampung kegiatan masyarakat; (2) Redevelopment, yaitu pengembangan dan pembangunan berbagai macam bangunan dengan fungsi campuran, fasilitas transportasi yang bertujuan mengurangi ketergantungan kepada kendaraan bermotor dan kehidupan sosial yang lebih baik; (3) Regreening, yaitu penghijauan dalam bentuk ruang terbuka publik, taman dan dapat berupa berbagai perbaikan lingkungan (Dunham-Jones & Williamson, 2011;Williamson, 2013).…”

Outlets malls of the future: an approach to customer’s expectations

“…However, it is more difficult to find literature on how these shopping malls will develop in the future and, more specifically, the customers' perceptions towards such developments. Despite some research on actual transformations of shopping malls into different kinds of facilities, such as transformations into paintball centres (Dunham-Jones & Williamson, 2017), practitioners are some of the few that analyse trends in the outlet industry.…”