Unisinos Shopping Centre
unisinos shopping centre:
a sustainable growth
The idea of sustainable development, as it is defined, was accepted as the main concept to be respected by governmental plans of development of the 21st century. The application of this concept of sustainable development is the responsability of a series of individual or collective entities that have a part to play in the domains of environmental development and protection. Under this point of view, and in conformity with the philosophy of adequate Environmental Management, our proposal takes on a particular responsability to actively endorse the construction of the concept of sustainable development and, above all, to strengthen Unisinos’ ISO 14.001 certificate.
Thus, the Unisinos Shopping Centre takes as a reference three independent factors simultaneously:
- Energetic integrity (low rate of energetic consumption – kWh/m2) according to renewable sources and the chosen concept of the project;
- Functional integrity (great commercial performance) according to the sinergy between stores, cinemas, the anchor store and the food court; and
- Economical integrity (adequation of the proposal to Unisinos’s budget) according to a maximum use of existing installations.
These references have several practical consequences, like the ‘passive’ hability of the building to reach a level of comfort and use without depending on the use of energy; a smaller rate in energy/m² consumption (since the solar radiation doesn’t affect the envelope of the air-conditioned areas directly); the specification of materials with greater thermic mass (stone, masonry and concrete); the reutilization of renewable resources (water, sunlight, sewage); and the creation of a micro-climate appropriate to sub-tropical regions.
