Type

Retail & Comercial Building

Description

This project became one of the first ¨outlet big format layout¨ shopping malls in Colombia, which was opened to public on 2014. Located on the central west part of Bogota and surrounded by low rise building areas, the location is exposed to significant and constant predominant winds coming from the north-east.

Bogota city is located at 2,600 meters above sea level in a plateau that is part of the central mountain range Cordillera Central. That makes the air relatively cold during the nights, as it is high up in the mountains. But during daylight, the radiation level of the sun is also high, so it can easily heat up the air and elevate the temperature on a clear day.

This means that when operational, this building will drastically increase the internal temperature through the rooftop radiation on a clear day during lunch hour, but by evening that same indoor space will drop temperature to around 8ºC. It will make the building´s permanent temperature be out of the confort zone conditions all year round. Further more, it can impact the experience on the people visiting the shopping mall on a negative way and never return to it.

This city has a delta of temperature between 8ºC - 20ºC. When you have a client that wants to cover 85,000 sqm of comercial area with a glass rooftop, this is something you want to consider in your designs.