logisthèque

Student: Abdelrahman Ibrahim

Shopping malls have become devoid of shopping and rather become backdrops for social life, online shopping is devoid of social life and rather is mystified, isolating its users from its workings. I intend to consolidate the shopping malls and online shopping jelling both and supplementing the connection with social life.
For the semester project, I chose to integrate online shopping logistics infrastructure in to Hansson Zentrum, Favoriten, Vienna, Austria. The idea of the project entails the addition of non-intrusive social and logistical infrastructure to the mall to convert it into a socially functioning site that fulfills online orders.
The site has many daily visitors, primarily for social functions rather than commercial reasons. The restaurants and cafés are quite active throughout their operating times while the retail stores are mainly inactive except for the off-chance. There are no toilets in the mall, or at least no one seems to find them.

My proposal aims at creating an alternative e-commerce chain to the current one.
Currently, the chain is as follows: customer orders online > order processed by sellers > items packed at seller’s facility or fulfillment center > first mile delivery > sorting hub > last mile delivery > end consumer my proposed chain is as follows:
customer orders online > regional warehouse > Hansson Zentrum > cargo bikes or parcel lockers or shop pickup or storage> end consumer

In doing so, the great machine of e-commerce logistics is decentralized and broken up, revealing its innards to its users. No longer mystified, no longer monopolized, and brings people and their products through a reciprocal gaze.