The building footprint follows a traditional
retail model of placing the anchor tenants in
the corners of the site and introducing walkway
links between, along which the smaller retail
offerings are placed to create a continuous
shopping experience and work environment.
The Dainfern Square development, however,
introduces three further layers to the strip mall
typology, making the project’s arrangement quite
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unique. The first is the surface parking square
which pulls all the building elements together. An
open mall link is introduced behind the first layer of
retail which complements the traditional covered
mall and creates a more vibrant outdoor shopping
and dining experience. With no entrance doors,
consumers move unobstructed from the square of
surface parking into the heart of the centre which
flows into both open and internal mall areas. Lastly,
Dainfern Square