SUSTAINABLE & CREATIVE MALL in PHNOM PENH
RETAIL/MIX-USED • COMPETITION • 2019
CLIENT: International Investors
ARCHITECTURE – INTERIOR – LANDSCAPE: T3 ARCHITECTS
LIGHTING DESIGN: KOBI Lighting Studio (Vietnam)
T3 participated to the Norodom Shopping Mall Competition in Phnom Penh – CAMBODIA. T3 Team proposed a strong Concept, first to combine sustainability and business efficiency, then to offer much more than Retails for the Mall by bringing additional activities to make the place much more attractive for a large audience. The aim is to create a “Desirable City” in Phnom Penh, with a real urbanism and consider sustainability as a global Concept with social, economic and environmental aspects. The goal is also to bring Art and Nature into the building by organizing events and offering large terrace protected form the “polluted” environment around…
Promote natural ventilation and limit AC…
T3 designed an additional layer (cement boards fixed on a secondary metal structure) above the existing metal panels roof as to create a “double ventilated roof” which limit overheating by sun as well as noise due to strong tropical rain!
T3 also created an opened courtyard on the building’s backside to reinforce the natural ventilation by air depression…
