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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. MyZeil in Frankfurt am Main, Germany by Studio FuksasMarch 7th, 2017 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Studio Fuksas The MyZeil Shopping Mall covers an area of 77,000 square meters, a structure that includes shops, leisure spaces, kids areas, restaurants, fitness center and parking. The building is spread over 6 floors, the shopping area from level -1 to the third floor, while from the fourth floor, which serves as a square and meeting place, there are the fitness area and restaurants.  Image Courtesy © Karsten Monnerjahn
 Image Courtesy © Karsten Monnerjahn The project comes from geography. It’s like a river that, from above, has got different depths, reaching the depths of the Earth. The structure of the project stems from a fluid shape that connects the Zeil, an important shopping boulevard in the heart of the city of Frankfurt, with the Thurn und Taxis palace (building reconstructed in historic style).  Image Courtesy © Karsten Monnerjahn  Image Courtesy © Karsten Monnerjahn The two poles of the project, the side of the Zeil and the side of the Thurn und Taxis, are designed differently. The façade that runs along the Zeil is an expression of leisure, entertainment, relaxation. The other side, instead, maintains a more formal appearance. The façade on the Zeil is sucked into a great void that makes us see the sky and that invites visitors to enter as sucked into a vortex.  Image Courtesy © Karsten Monnerjahn  Image Courtesy © Karsten Monnerjahn From the ground floor, users can access the various plans through a system of escalators and elevators, and go directly to the fourth floor in 120 seconds through a 45-meter escalator. Worthy of note is the cover, alternating panels of glass and steel recalling the landscape of the canyon. This external “shell”, mostly transparent, through a system of voids is for filtering the natural light at all levels of the mall.  Image Courtesy © Karsten Monnerjahn  Image Courtesy © Karsten Monnerjahn BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES Studio Fuksas, led by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, is one of the most outstanding international architectural firm in the world. Over the past 40 years the company has developed an innovative approach through a strikingly wide variety of projects, ranging from urban interventions to airports, from museums to cultural centers and spaces for music, from convention centers to offices, from interiors to design collections.  Image Courtesy © Karsten Monnerjahn  Image Courtesy © Karsten Monnerjahn With headquarters in Rome, Paris and Shenzhen, and a staff of 170 professionals, the practice has completed more than 600 projects and has worked in Europe, Africa, America, Asia and Australia, receiving numerous international awards. Massimiliano Fuksas of Lithuanian descent, was born in Rome in 1944. He graduated in Architecture from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1969. Since the Eighties he has been one of the main protagonists of the contemporary architectural scene.  Image Courtesy © Karsten Monnerjahn  Image Courtesy © Karsten Monnerjahn Doriana Mandrelli Fuksas was born in Rome where she graduated in History of Modern and Contemporary Architecture at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1979. She has also earned a degree in Architecture from ESA, École Spéciale d’Architecture, Paris. She has done didactic activities at the Institute of History of Art at the Faculty of Letters and Arts and at Industrial Design Department ITACA at “La Sapienza” University in Rome. She has curated four “Special Projects” at the “VII Mostra Internazionale di Architettura di Venezia”, Less Aesthetics, More Ethics in 2000: Jean Prouvè, Jean Maneval, the Peace Pavilion and Architecture of Spaces, and the Contemporary Art section. She has worked with Massimiliano Fuksas in 1985 and has been director in charge of “Fuksas Design” since 1997. In 2002 she was decorated Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la République Française. In 2006 Awards for Excellence Europe” ULI (Urban Land Institute), first prize awarded to New Trade Fair, Rho-Pero in Milan, Italy, Washington D. C. In 2012 Wallpaper* Design Awards 2012, EUR New Congress Centre, Rome, Italy awarded Best Building Site, London, UK. In 2013 she was decorated Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la République Française. The same year the Idea-Tops Awards, Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport-T3, awarded Best Transportation Space in Shenzhen, China and Designer Kitchen & Bathroom Awards 2013, Impronta wash-basin for Catalano awarded Gold Winner in the Innovation in Design, London.  Image Courtesy © Moreno Maggi  Image Courtesy © Gianmarco Chieregato  first floor, Image Courtesy © Archivio Fuksas  second floor, Image Courtesy © Archivio Fuksas  third floor, Image Courtesy © Archivio Fuksas  fourth floor, Image Courtesy © Archivio Fuksas  fifth floor, Image Courtesy © Archivio Fuksas  sixth floor, Image Courtesy © Archivio Fuksas  seventh floor, Image Courtesy © Archivio Fuksas  eighth floor, Image Courtesy © Archivio Fuksas
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Tags: Frankfurt am Main, Germany Categories: Commercial Area, Commercial Building, Fitness center, Mall, Mixed use, Parking, Restaurant, shopping center, Shopping Mall |
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