Social Mall Jakarta - a win win spatial solution
Channel: SHAU architects
Date: 2012-05-11

Social Mall - a win - win spatial solution, by SHAU + andramatin

SHAU and andramatin would like to respond to 2 of Jakarta's problems: (1) lack of public facilities and (2) oversaturation of shopping malls, in one spatial solution.
Since 1980s, the city's development has been guided by the private sector. Around 170 malls have been built in the Jakarta region. But despite this increasing trend, some of these malls suffer from the lack of customers and disconnection with the neighbourhood, infrastructure, and other malls.

Social Mall integrates public facilities like library, playground, clinics, sports fields, green spaces that are missing into malls that have low occupancy rates and empty commercial spaces.
Furthermore we see potentials in maximizing connections between malls with bridges,
platforms and ramps that can accommodate more public programs.