ARANETA CENTER, CUBAO

ARANETA CENTER, CUBAO

CONCLUSION:

Araneta Center, Cubao may be supposed as a place where every human need is at the most convenient. It offers a variety of buildings and services from residential to commercial to office buildings and to recreational facilities and even transportation facilities. Everything is just around the corner. But this variety of land use poses an obvious threat to the whole center. One major problem is overcrowding. There are too many people, who come and go in Araneta that security is at risk; traffic congestions happen and parking lots aren’t enough to accommodate lots of people. These problems also lead to environmental concerns like pollution, heat build- up, and uncontrolled noise problems. Zoning is also a major concern because parking lots are scattered and unorganized; the presence of a wet market beside a shopping mall and arena poses maintenance problems and unpleasant odors and vistas and so on.

OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:

MANHATTAN GARDEN CITY

Introducing the state-of-the-art residential condominiums

ARANETA CENTER ITSELF

Nonetheless, it’s good that Araneta Center is undergoing a massive redevelopment program with its striving mission-vision to be the largest mixed- use real estate development. Using urban infills, injecting good and quality landscapes, it is good that it promotes good site planning, thus in the near future, this will generate more life- enhancing activities to the users and may boost economy.

• THE CENTER ITSELF SERVES AS AN ESTABLISHED RETAIL, ENTERTAINMENT, RESIDENTIAL AND OFFICE DEVELOPMENT.
• OFFERS MAXIMUM ACCESSIBILITY

FUTURE...

NOVOTEL MANILA

• LARGEST MIXED-USE REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT (a mix of state-of-the-art retail, entertainment, commercial, hotel and residential uses in a complementary, transit oriented development pattern within a lush “garden city” environment that will attract a wide range of public and private activities)
• An information technology backbone to nurture the development of new, information technology-oriented companies and business process outsourcing firms

OTHER BUILDINGS:

• a deluxe business hotel connected to Gateway Mall and Smart Araneta Coliseum
• 417 rooms, a 1,000 capacity ballroom, a gym, a bar lounge. Plus all-day dining, spa, swimming pools, function rooms and 3 levels of basement parking

AURORA TOWER

ARANETA CENTER CYBERPARK

• 22-level Aurora Tower. offers an 18-storey commercial/office space, underground parking, a helipad and penthouse.
• The Isetann Department Store occupies the building’s first seven floors.
• The Araneta Group’s headquarters occupies the four top floors.

• part of the eight hectare property earmarked for the development of the Araneta Center as an IT hub
• 15,000 sq. meters with the ground floor area intended to be retail areas

Fabergé Egg-like “Pavilion”

serves as Gateway’s ceremonial entrance

DIAGRAMMATIC ANALYSIS

Flower Garden Area

GATEWAY TOWER

SMART ARANETA COLISEUM

• one of the newest landmarks of the Araneta Center
• PEZA Certified skyscraper has direct access to MRT 3 and LRT 2 stations and the Manhattan Garden City residential condominiums through an elevated link bridge
• 30 level office skyscraper adjacent to and directly connected on 4 levels to thE Gateway Mall
• 3 levels of basement parking linked to mall parking of 1,000 cars, 2 levels of penthouse restaurants, and a helipad

The Centerpiece of the site: THE BIG DOME

The largest entertainment venue in Asia with a seating capacity of 15,000. It opened as the world’s biggest indoor arena in 1960.

BEHAVIOR PATTERNS

PEOPLE OFTEN PREFER TO MEET AND DINE ALONG THE ALLEYS OF RESTAURANTS JUST OUTSIDE GATEWAY MALL.

ARANETA PARKING

congested private parking/ puv parking

The new parking building

GATEWAY MALL

“The Oasis”

BEHAVIOR PATTERNS

DURING ORDINARY DAYS

• comprises five levels of shopping, dining and entertainment
• directly linked to the Coliseum, and to the 2 major transit trains in the metro: the MRT3 and LRT2
• total floor area of 100,000 square meters and caters to about 220,000 shoppers every day

a one-of-a-kind interior floating garden open to the sky

DURING WEEKENDS AND BIG DAYS AT THE BIG DOME

MAP (SATELLITE VIEW)

BASE MAP

12 noon SUN

ACCESS ROUTES

ZONING MAP

BEST AREAS

OTHER COMMERCIAL AREAS

ALI MALL

SHOPWISE MALL

3PM SUN

WIND MAP

• Ali Mall is the first fully enclosed shopping mall in the Philippines.
• Named after famed boxing champion Muhammad Ali
• a total area of over 62,000 square meters and houses four levels of specialty shops, entertainment outlets, designer boutiques, five cinemas, Ali Mall Movie Guide parking, and a food gallery

• supermarket
• restaurants
• shops
• parking

ARANETA CENTER, CUBAO

FARMERS PLAZA

ARANETA BUS STATION

• 35-hectare commercial area in Barangay Socorro, Quezon City 1100
• located at the intersection of EDSA and AURORA BLVD.
• directly linked to MRT3 and LRT2
• owned by the Araneta family
• brings in an estimated 1 million visitors daily

• Araneta Center’s gateway to EDSA.
• Renovated and expanded in 1999, the five-level complex is the first ever commercial condominium in the Philippines.
• offers 60,400 square meters of prime retail space occupied by cheap merchandise outlets.
• A 5-level shopping complex with a mix of international and local shops, dining outlets and entertainment facilities.

SM CITY CUBAO

soon to be developed into Manhattan Residences extension

• One of the oldest malls of SM chain of shopping malls in the country (1978)

FARMERS MARKET

a market selling fresh produce and other goods. It has a total floor area of 12,000 square meters.

MASSIVE 20-YEAR DEVELOPMENT

Currently undergoing redevelopment.

• Residential
• Commercial
• Recreational
• Office

design by Dóri Sirály for Prezi