Dreaming Mall

Chang’an University × MONOLITH Architects

Year: 2021
Location: Shanghai, China
Project type: Workshop · Individual Work
Focus: Architecture / Narrative Space / Immersive

Dreaming Mall explores how dream logic can be translated into spatial experience. Combining immersive theatre with retail circulation, the project turns an existing shopping mall into a sequence of narrative stages where performance, commerce, and everyday movement overlap.

Pink mall interior with layered circulation, performance spaces, planting, and dreamlike installations.

Narrative collages, sequence diagrams, and survey results translating dream logic into spatial design.

Exploded axonometric showing the mall programmes and vertical and performance circulation routes.

Exploded structural layers and a longitudinal section through the mall and its internal stages.