Riem Arcaden

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mfi - a division of Unibail-Rodamco Group
3.000 m²
2017
Customer Journey, Interior Design, Graphic Design

Along the entire customer journey, the design offers cosy comfort, in the numerous lounges as well as in the Food Island. Light, furniture, colours, shapes are perfectly integrated into the existing concept: grey, white, mint with wood and green skilfully continue the play with the three colour and form complexes in the main building (green, blue, orange) and differentiate the access paths and atriums. Circular light submissions are arecurring design theme, too. Our 3D visualization - see image above - as an interim projection gave us an idea of the depth of the room, until the path was opened with the inauguration of the extension. The Design was realized in close cooperation with the interior design department of mfi - A Division of Unibail-Rodamco Germany. 

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mfi - a division of Unibail-Rodamco Group
9.300 m²
2015
Refurbishment, Beleuchtungskonzept, Wegeführung, Kunden WCs

With this  conversion within five months during operation with all the associated constraints – the central architectural interventions were the lighting, the signage and the mall-furniture. A real challenge, for example, to print 6,000 sqm of self-designed wallpapers and install these in the course of three weeks!

Starting at the access to the mall, a giant light wave at the main entrances attracts the visitors. The eight car park entrances have got a new look, too, as a visible welcome gesture: Huge and well recognizable from a distance, circular light submissions in newly built portals in warm wood optics indicate the directions in a clear and inviting way. The elevator lobbies shine in a new light with indirect lighting on the ceiling edges and in the large, round ceiling panel, a real eye-catcher! The round design language of the lighting concept – consistently customized special lights based on LED – is central theme throughout the entire renewed interior. The circle is also characteristic for the rest areas and lounges of which the delicate ring lights attract from afar.

For the orientation in the Center different graphic patterns were developed, which unfold as a true feast for the eyes already in the access areas. Three colour and form complexes differentiate horizontal circulation routes and halos: Warm red-orange with the basic shape of triangle, green-olive tones with a diamond-shaped square, and blue-grey hues in the shape of a rectangle. An equally artistic and surprising play with form and colour makes the customer journey through the mall a true journey of discovery at all points of experience. Varying wood elements have stylishly complemented the graphical elements: lamellae, fixtures and panels in oak-optics, for example, in the anterooms.

Relaxation and visual variety in the interior design offer all rest areas and lounges in the Center, from the access areas to the Mall floors. The space-structuring islands stand out through selected furniture – sofas and chairs by +Halle and tables by Hay – and by a separate quality flooring in herringbone pattern and warm tobacco-hue. The colours correspond to the colour codes of the respective geometric patterns. Not only the colour of the leather upholstery changes; evocative nature motifs, sometimes in orange, sometimes in green, emit in backlit large-format frames, at the lift lobbies complemented by the green loveseats (+Halle) and solid oak blocks as tables. Plants and fireplaces in the lounge alternate in the frames, specially created as a fancy room divider of the lounges.