Architecture controls us, directing our movements and shaping interactions, often to the point of alienation. As a cornerstone of modern Americana, the American shopping mall exemplifies this. Historically, these controlled interior urban spaces have segregated society; an architecture of control that this project dissects. By stripping away commercial artifice to focus on spatial massing and behavioral circulation, the project subverts alienating typologies. It reimagines how spatial interventions can disrupt programmed isolation to foster genuine, cross-generational civic reconciliation.
