Category: Comercial
Region: North America
Year: 1990
Location: Tustin, California, U.S.A.
FT2 Construction: 0 sq ft
FT2 Ground: 0 sq ft
Involved Areas: Architecture
Collaborators:
LEGORRETA®
Ricardo Legorreta
Noé Castro
Carlos Vargas Sr.
Gerardo Alonso
Associate Architects:
Arquitecto Ejecutivo: Leason Pomeroy Architects
Project Architect: Brian Sandberg
Consultants:
Contractor: Snyder Langston Builders
Structural Design: Culf & Associates
Installation Design: Re Wall& Associates
Interiors: Leason Pomeroy Architects
Landscape Design: Rod
Graphic Design: Sussman / Prejzak
Photographer:
Colección LEGORRETA
The complex size, location and proximity to the freeway and dictated an unusual scale to the project. The architectural solution was to create a project that would become an urban sculpture, rather than just a series of buildings. The previously mentioned solution was achieved by grouping the buildings and making all walls the main element of composition by using the same materials, and a variety of harmonic colors. The Market Place has two distinctive types of uses: pedestrian, oriented to the entertainment center, known as the “Village Center”, and vehicular, oriented to large scaled stores, along the perimeter of the project. The plan has been designed to accentuate the differences between the two types of uses. A dense grove of trees in the parking structure reinforces the pedestrian scaled “Village Center” that encompass smaller shops where people tend to shop from store to store. At the project’s center the “entertainment village” features a multi-screen cinema on a second level over shops and restaurants at the projects center. The context was created by taking the basic elements of the promotional retail program and rethinking them and how they may be used: 88 Ft high light towers illuminate 174,375 Sqft. parking lot color was used as a part of the architecture instead of decoration. Its simplistic architectural approach presents a special richness through the use of mass, scale, color, texture, shadow and integrates landscape.
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