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A planning application for new development of shopping centre and restaurant. The land for the project is located in Africa, Bosaso city in North East region of Somalia.
The land for the shopping centre is 42 x 20 meters, this made very difficult to fit everything requested by the client, and nevertheless we managed to accommodate both the shopping centre and the restaurant, including accompanying buildings.
The shopping centre has two accesses, one for customers and one for staff and product delivery for the shops.
We have considered a disable access for the disabled people; we have included in our design a ramp at the customer entrance access.
The shopping centre is designed considering local architecture, materials and climate. Due to hot climactic weather the design of the building is included large projecting shading elements, to give sufficient shading from the sun, but also work as contemporary architectural feature.
We have used ventilated blocks which provide natural ventilation into the building, this gave the facades distinct character and strong architectural features.