Located within an urban complex, LOT 38 occupies a 4,120-square-meter corner site at a roundabout, with a total built area of approximately 1,500 square meters. Its prominent position requires an architectural response that addresses urban scale, visibility, and the dynamic flow of movement surrounding the site.
From the early design stages, the project was shaped by three primary design drivers. The first concerns the orientation of the buildings toward the roundabout. Rather than aligning directly with the street edge, the building masses are set back to create an open foreground. This space acts as a transitional zone between the main road and the commercial functions within, allowing activities inside the complex to remain visible and easily legible from the surrounding streets.
The second driver focuses on massing. The architecture is conceived as solid, monolithic, and relatively tall volumes—not to dominate the context, but to establish a strong yet calm presence. These volumes are carefully positioned to engage in dialogue with the mature trees surrounding the site, allowing architecture and landscape to complement one another and create a balanced, non-aggressive urban character.
The third and most defining driver is the organization of the site through an interconnected courtyard system. Six building volumes—three restaurant buildings, one supermarket, one supporting tenant building, and one service facility—are distributed across the site and unified by a sequence of courtyards. These spaces function as green buffers, social nodes, and connectors, enabling intuitive movement throughout the complex.
All buildings are connected by wide open-air corridors, reinforcing an outdoor circulation experience. The restaurant buildings face the primary road, where shaded forecourts and planted terraces form active social spaces that engage both users and passersby.
Overall, LOT 38 presents a calm and contextually responsive commercial environment, where solid architectural forms, open spaces, and greenery work together to shape an integrated urban destination.