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ituated in Aspen Hills south of Johannesburg, Mall of the
South is a 65 000 m
2
shopping mall located on a major
intersection for maximum visibility and ease of access.
Vivid Architects were the architects and Quad Africa Consult-
ing the electrical engineers for this upmarket Zenprop Property
Holdings shopping centre.
The mall was conceptualised as a double-level retail centre,
with convenient well-located parking, predominantly accommo-
dated within a parking structure.The building design makes use
of a 16 m level change across the site, optimising a balanced
cut-and-fill building platform.
According to Peter Bruyns of Vivid Architects, the key design
features are simplicity of the retail layout, excellent sight lines
and connectivity between the retail levels, hard wearing good
quality finishes, a contemporary ‘un-themed’ design aesthetic,
design longevity, efficiency of space, superior landscaping and
the inclusion of green areas on the parking decks and entrances
to the building.
With the inclusion of the active external retail edge of the
main façade, the architects provided a sense of openness,
connectivity and activity along the main façade adjacent to the
parking structure. “On the upper level, two central restaurants
spill out onto the parking area with seating and landscaping,”
says Bruyns. “Other restaurants along the façade have views
across the parking area to the horizon and landscape beyond.”
Lighting Innovations supplied the lighting for the shopping
centre, the parking areas and parkade, the façade and the out-
door areas – in fact, everything except the shops themselves.
Tino Botha, branch manager of Lighting Innovations Johannes-
burg, oversaw the company’s involvement in the project.
A glazed façade and skylights provide extensive natural light
to the mall. Lighting Innovations’ brief was to deliver additional
energy efficient, illumination with good quality lux levels. Botha
explains how this was achieved, “We used 4000 K (cool white)
LED as the source throughout the shopping centre. Linear LED
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Photograph courtesy Vivid Architects.
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