The major issues of shopping centers located in the suburbs were broached here as an opportunity for creating a gathering place in a neighborhood that lacked such places. In a country with high precipitation, the urban social living can only take place under cover from sun and rain. Thus, the large covered spaces acquire life and animation. Therefore, we dealt with a space that was to germinate into an active urban social center in a peripheral neighborhood not too densely populated. All the commercial locales are oriented toward the interior, providing a necessary and attractive animation. In response to low density and height (two stories), low volumes were designed on the borders, featuring double eaves, intended to providing a scale. The long façade of the colonial adobe homes, with their deep eaves is envisioned here. The roof with steep gradients evacuates rainfall rapidly. Due to its length, it was divided into nine pyramids with internal concrete gutters in the passages, forming a network. The inner brilliance based on natural light, alive and ever-changing, is part of the character endowed to an internal space for gatherings. Such public reunions, although so typical of a city and traditional centers, have been somewhat thwarted for multiple reasons.

For an architect, these shopping centers constitute an opportunity to recreate these meeting places: this is an action derived from the prosaic function of shopping. If the occasion and the spot are provided, the action will arise. Ample and transparent spaces, where the eyesight can wonder, and seating areas under shadowed gables, are required for conversation. The pleasantness of this space rests in the use of pyramids ventilated and illuminated at their base, as used in the vestibules of the early 20th-century homes.