Harmony Star Gardens
Suzhou, China                              while with RNL/Charlesgroup

As the Design Director for this project, I oversaw 4 team members where we developed unique ideas for this pre-designed shopping environment. We focused on identifying the atriums as vertical neighborhoods where retailers who sell complimentary products would be organized surrounding the atriums, making the vertical volumes unique experiences. This organization creates an uncommon visitor circulation flow for all of the retailers; enticing the shopper to travel vertically rather than the typical horizontal movement pattern. We produced sketchup models, plans in AutoCAD - then to illustrator - renderings done in Shanghai.