Portal Nuñoa

Architect

Nicolás Matzner Weisner

Associate Architect on Design

Daniela Davanzo Matte

Associate Architect on Construction

Cristián  Meneses Gómez

Associate Architect on Field

Eduardo Basaure Herrera

Construction Company

NMW

Date of Construction

November 2010 – January 2011

Built Area

126 m2

Location

Av. José Pedro Alessandri 1166
Local 3064, Ñuñoa
Santiago, Chile.

The use of artificial light in malls is much longer than the night shift itself. In fact if a shop is not directly facing outdoors or does not have skylights, it should utilize artificial lighting for the duration of its operating hours.

To optimize the energy expenditure a new system is implemented, which combines three types of LED lights: some fixed spots in the customer care area, moving lights on the top of every hallway to target specific products, and one that replicates the format of the fluorescent tube. The latter is the most recurrent as it follows all the paths that a customer takes walking among the store shelves.

To give more prominence to the new lightning system, positions gained independence from vents as the celling was painted black.

The line of furniture from the latest stores was kept and a wide and transparent façade was chosen to strategically expose the interior of the shop to the view of passers- by in the mall.