The starting point for this project was a ghost building - a construction of a residential district Shopping Centre '10000' that began in the mid-1980s . The building was brought to the open rough framework stage and haunting the habitants of the surrounding blocks for almost 20 years, only in 1997 the doors and windows were partially fitted. Mushrooming new residential estates around it increased the already existing shortage of commercial facilities in this area.

Our assignment was to adapt the existing structure for contemporary commercial needs. The block of the existing building and the budget of the local shopping centre left a very small operational margin. Therefore, the design was limited to the contemporary envelope of the building, the combining of its functional system into a modular network of prefabricated structure and the plot disposition. We tried to create a new quality for the building, respecting its primary arrangement without criticism. We emphasized the horizontal block with aluminium frames surrounding the building, and external roofs along shop windows. This allowed us to achieve overall consistency, despite the existing different character of each exterior wall, and to outline the frames for advertising boards, which often go out of the architect's control, especially after the end of the investment process. The structure of a roof skylight, which in the new design lost its practical function, was encased with a perforated metal sheet, which kept its outline visible and provided potential space for advertising boards. The combination of soft colours used in the building created a background for glaring colours dominating in shops, and its simple form continues the perpendicular arrangement of the existing block. The only extravagant detail is the illumination of the exterior wall, arranged using chess-board-shaped fluorescent lamps, signalling the commercial character of the building after dawn.