The Collision Crater- Deira-- Pimlada Bunluthangthum

The rendering inside my underground shopping mall in the area where there is the surface of grass to hint different activities as an interactive space where people can sit and chill, walk around, bbq, and etc. while the other grass surface is meant for more sporting activities like soccer or golfing. Also as you can see in the rendering, there is a platform 5 meters from the ground where people walk on, which connects to ramps that leads to different parts of the shopping mall.

Final Review Part 1

Plan: Showing the programs on the center hub with the crater leading down to the underground metro station. The circulation shows the ramp heading from different entrances to bring different human tribes into the mall. The different routes intersects causing the people to collide leading down to various programs with no boundary between each other.

Updated render

Rendering progress: In this rendering, i tried to show the change in surface materials on the wall as well as on the ground. I also try to show the columns I had in my plan to direct the circulation of my underground shopping mall. 

Plan Update

This is the updated program arrangement so far with the grid system that goes along the circulation route. This means that there will not be that much wall. The boundary and threshold between each program is directed through the placement of the columns according to my grid system. Now the program is shown diagrammatically by color coding:
orange- nightclub
blue- water related programs
light brown- sand related programs
purple- mosque
green- grass related program

Taxonomy Update

This is my site at Deira, Dubai. The site covers 3 districts of Al Dhagaya, Naif, and Ayal Naser, which these local districts have the highest population density of communities in Dubai. The site location allows me to bring in as much people to my underground shopping mall as possible. This is for the different tribes of local, expats, and tourists to collide. The diagram shows my site and how I could lay out the programs along the site. 

Commercial Pragmatism

COMMERCIAL PRAGMATISM

How do mosques financially survive?

http://www.gulfbase.com/news/dubai-signs-mosque-development-deal-with-dpg/140777

Dubai Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department (MoU) signed a contract with DPG (Dubai Properties Group) on all deals related with mosque development and maintenance. This is to support brotherhood as well as the Dubai communities.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120819000258AAZDGHi

Some mosques earn money through donations from the visitors, which is not mandatory. They believe that the people who believe in God should give donations willingly. However, in Saudi Arabia, the government subsidizes the mosques and does not take donations from the public.

Mosques are usually funded by the government, state or charitable organizations.

http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/5398/million-dollar-mosques-surrounded-by-hungry-muslims/

Every Muslims must give up 2.5% of their incomes or annual savings to charity every year (assuming that this percentage will not affect the giver financially.

Case Study: Deira City Center

Revenue and Income

Deira City Center is a shopping mall for all income groups like Iconic, the fashion brand part of Deira earns money from high status people; Carrefour earns money from all types of people; Magic Planet earns money from family and children. It has over 370 shops with numerous events and promotions for the people like having Candy Adventure Land event to thank children for bringing their smiles to their mall.

These are the shops in Deira City Center

http://www.zawya.com/story/Deira_City_Centre_awards_its_Top_Retailers_for_2011_at_this_years_AGM-ZAWYA20120331093809/

Deira City Center was awarded as a top retailer in the year 2011 based on sales and operational department from the People’s Choice Award.

Retailer of the Year 2011 Award Winners are (in no particular order):

• 2010 Best Anchor Store - Sharaf DG

• 2010 Best Flagship Store - The GAP

• 2010 Best Large Fashion Store - Bershka

• 2010 Best Small Fashion Store - Pierre Cardin Ladies

• 2010 Best Food & Beverage Outlet - Panda Chinese

• 2010 Best Electronics & Entertainment Store - Al Falak Electronics

• 2010 Homewares, Giftware & Leather Goods Store - Kipling

• 2010 Best Health, Well-being & Cosmetics Store - Paris Gallery

• 2010 Best Footwear & Sports Store - Vincci

• 2010 Best Jewellery & Watch Store - Omega Watches

• 2010 Best Optical, Accessories & Service Store - Sunglass Hut

• 2010 People's Choice Award - Carrefour

• 2010 Retailer of the Year - Sharaf DG

Underground Site and Taxonomy

This is my underground site located in Deira, which is the most dense city of Dubai. The three districts I chose to base my site on is Al Dhagaya, Ayal Naser, and Naif, which is the most dense districts in Dubai. My underground shopping mall will be built under the road in these three districts, moving through and surfacing to the ground at the dots show in the diagram. The red dots represents the possible entrance and exits of my underground shopping mall based on the building typology where in those areas that surrounds the red dots, there are evidences of a lot of people occupying the space.