← #30DayMapChallenge 2026·Day 8

Utopia

A map of something that could be

IndoorUtopiaAdaptive reuseFloor planMappedin

The Mall Becomes a Town

Plenty of malls are half-empty, and the buildings are too good to waste. They already have streets, squares, lifts and doors on every side. So what if we kept the building and changed what's inside? I asked Claude for a solarpunk utopia of Mappedin's demo mall, and this is its idea: the mall, repurposed as a small neighbourhood.

The Mall Becomes a Town: a floor plan of the Mappedin demo mall's street level. Three department stores are blue and labelled school, library and health centre; the fourth is a green market hall. Mustard workshops, terracotta cafés and beige everyday shops line the corridors. A small plan of Level 2 below shows most units in pink as homes, with a teal nursery. A key explains each colour.
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Same walls, new jobs

On the street, the big department stores become a school, a library, a health centre and a market hall. Fashion units turn into workshops for tailors, cobblers and makers, and the cafés stay cafés. Upstairs, 47 shop units become homes, room for about 380 flats, with a nursery and a sports hall next door.

The rooms, walls and areas are from the real Mappedin floor plans; who moves in is a daydream. It's a sketch, not a feasibility study.

Your venue, its next life

An indoor map knows what every room is and how people move between them, which makes it a good place to sketch what a building could become. Talk to Mappedin about mapping your own.

Day 7 asked whether the stadium is downtown. More maps from the month are in the #30DayMapChallenge 2026 gallery.