Различните концепции в архитектурните решения на съвременните търговски центрове по света
Different Conceptions in Architectural Solutions of Contemporary Trade Centres Across the World

Summary/Abstract: In Bulgaria, the designing-implementation process of trade buildings and complexes started as late as six years ago. The intensity of construction of trade centres is incomparable with that in countries with similar economic and demographic data. This intensity of the process stepped up by lack of experience and continuity, as well as the construction of these buildings in the central arrears of the cities are the main reason for the earliest trade centres being not that good. This intensity led to amassed and repeated similar mistakes in functional solutions, local involvement and communications. Inexperience in the meanwhile led to two solutions. The former, to applying unconvincing structural and spatial concepts, which, led by desire to pack the site to the capacity, acquired the appearance of non-tectonic compositions of parallelepipeds. The lack of rchitecturality in these spaces misled the reasoning of the creators to complicated rasters, innovative technologies and materials, large glazing and abundant promotional branding. The latter solution was a downsized replica of a popular, well-liked trade centre in a Bulgarian solution. All this resulted in demand and application of new versions of trade centres. Most of these are tested schemes in Europe. And though developed in different periods, with different durations and in different places across the world, all of them raised unequivocally the issue of ‘different’ concepts, “green architecture” and innovations.

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