Low, Wide and Built Around the CarNízke, široké a postavené okolo auta

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Low, Wide and Built Around the CarNízke, široké a postavené okolo auta

Laugaricio is an edge-of-town centre and makes no attempt to pretend otherwise. Where a city-centre mall has to fold itself into a street frontage and climb, this one spreads: a long horizontal volume with its entrances set under canopies, ringed by a broad free surface car park rather than tucked over an underground garage. You arrive by car, you park level with the door, and you walk straight in. That is the whole design brief, and it is executed without fuss.Laugaricio je centrum na okraji mesta a ani sa netvári inak. Kým mestské centrum sa musí vtesnať do uličného frontu a rásť do výšky, toto sa rozťahuje: dlhý vodorovný objem so vstupmi pod prístreškami, obopnutý širokým bezplatným parkoviskom na teréne, nie postavený nad podzemnou garážou. Prídete autom, zaparkujete v rovine so vstupom a vojdete rovno dnu. To je celé zadanie a je splnené bez zbytočností.

Inside, the plan is the standard one and none the worse for it: a covered internal street running the length of the building, shopfronts on both sides, and daylight dropped in from above through roof lights so the middle of the plan does not feel like a basement. Walking it is easy — the distances are long rather than steep, and there is little of the disorienting circling that taller centres impose. The centre is served by several city bus lines as well as by the car, which matters more than it sounds: a shopping centre on the edge of a town of this size is otherwise unreachable for anyone who does not drive.Vnútri je pôdorys ten obvyklý a nič mu to neuberá: krytá vnútorná ulica po celej dĺžke budovy, výklady po oboch stranách a denné svetlo zhora cez strešné svetlíky, aby stred dispozície nepôsobil ako suterén. Chodí sa po nej ľahko — vzdialenosti sú skôr dlhé než strmé a chýba tu to mätúce krúženie, aké nanucujú vyššie centrá. Centrum obsluhuje popri aute aj niekoľko liniek mestskej dopravy, čo znamená viac, než sa zdá: nákupné centrum na okraji mesta tejto veľkosti je inak nedostupné pre každého, kto nešoféruje.

The covered internal street under its roof lights — daylight falling the whole length of the plan
The covered internal street under its roof lights — daylight falling the whole length of the plan.Krytá vnútorná ulica pod strešnými svetlíkmi — denné svetlo dopadá po celej dĺžke dispozície.
The eating area under glazing, tables and chairs empty in the early morning before opening
The eating area under glazing, tables and chairs empty in the early morning before opening.Priestor na jedenie pod presklením, prázdne stoly a stoličky skoro ráno pred otvorením.
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