Retail by the Design Specialists, issue 3. Lisbon - Promontorio

Puerta Granada ESmain facadeLocated on the peripheral highway system of the city of Granada,in the municipality of Pulianas, this new shopping centre andretail park, borders an existing ensemble of Multiplex cinemasand a future Ikea store. Following the idea of metaphor, welooked into the space sequences of the quintessential monumentof Granada, the Alhambra, and synthesized spatial typologies ofIslamic influence to which people could easily relate. Geometricpattern ornamentation with variations based on the samemathematical module unfold in a sequence of plazas that formdifferent skylight prisms, in some cases with honeycomb vaulting,in other cases with stalactite vaulting, and in others even aspyramidal kaleidoscopic diaphragms, all of which are intricatelydetailed in carved whitewashed stucco, along the track mall.This unfolding of different patterns, also serves the purpose offacade ornamentation, by the bas-relief imprint on the white precastconcrete panels that form the building (some of the panelsare solid, others are perforated). On the two entrances, theneed for additional transparency was achieved by switching fromconcrete panels to a curtain wall while maintaining the geometricalpattern in a frosted imprint.location pulianas, granadagla 45,000 sq.-m (shopping centre 28,000 + retail park 17,000)opening spring, 2012shops 132parking 2,860owners sierra fund/ miller developmentsdevelopers sonae sierra/ miller developments2425