How can design allow commercial functions to be more sustainable while also ‘negotiating’ the public’s access and usability?

The small-scale building is located on a lakeside commercial cluster. All photos by Jialing Li < > < > < >

Such questions drove the creation of this small-scale building, located on the CPI commercial cluster in Chengdu, China with a limited usage of 10 years. The owner’s brief was for the building to be seamlessly integrated with its lakeside environment while creating a vibrant new commercial usage scenario with a sense of ‘publicness’. This presented an opportunity to delve into the relationship between commercial and public spaces as well as responding to the landscape.

Redefining ‘publicness’

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