SHOPPING CENTER (OFFICE - COMMERCIAL USE)

PROPRIETOR: AKINITA PATRAS S.A.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Covering a total area of 5,500m2, the company assumed the design, procurement and construction of the project on a 3-acre site.

It is a composite structure of reinforced concrete slabs and columns, and structural-steel roof framework.

The main building areas were orientated around a 100m2-size atrium, which sheds ample natural air and light in the core of the building, ensuring aesthetic comfort for users in every level, while it creates microclimate, required for sustainable management of the building’s consumed energy.

Due to large glass-pane surface, warm air is rising towards the atrium’s glass roof, where it vents out through automated openings, reducing the use of air-conditioning. Shading is accomplished by metal louvres on windows facing south and south-west.

Applied ceramic ventilated facade technology clearly contributes in preserving a stable, natural, insulating behavior of the envelope, so that the building is vested in a monolithic material, which allows natural-air circulation through the cladding system, a fact which makes the energy footprint of the building easier to manage.