Innovations101: Malls
NCCC
Mall of Davao
NCCC (New City Commercial Corporation) Mall of Davao is one of the large
shopping malls in Davao City. It is located along McArthur Highway, Matina
Davao City. For how many years, it provided its customers with the best priced
quality products and services. It includes breads and pastries from
Breadfactory, health and pharmaceutical products from HB1, hardware and
do-it-yourself home fixtures from Hardwaremaxx, perfect film and digital
pictures from Kodakan, one-stop bowling, pool, KTV spot and restobar with B3,
and quality movie releases in a lively acoustic theater at NCCC Cinemas.
It was founded by Lim Tian Siu together with his spouse, KoGiok Loo.
They started from a small trading business includes a buying and selling
involving freshwater eels. In 1952, they started a textile business in Davao
City. Unfortunately, these first two business was burned. They were able to
rebuild their business in Ramon Magsaysay Avenue, Davao City. Henry, his eldest
son, helped in the expansion of their business, which now include a
supermarket, as well as a department store in a new location along Ramon
Magsaysay where NCCC Main Magsaysay now stands.
NCCC expanded not only in Davao City but also in other areas. In 1987,
another branch was built in Tagum, an hour drive from Davao City. The following
year, NCCC Main Magsaysay acquired the KIN Davao building at the corner of
Lizada and Ramon Magsaysay Avenue.
In 1991, they also
build a business in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan. Then expanded NCCC Tagum
into NCCC Mall Tagum. In 2002, they launch their first express oulet, the NCX.
But by far, the largest and boldest step is when NCCC opened its biggest store
in December 2003, NCCC Mall of Davao, at the corner of MacArthur Highway and
Ma-a Road, Davao City.
As I
visited NCCC Mall of Davao, I thought that there was nothing need to be
upgraded. It took me few hours just walking all over the mall. Then suddenly, I
felt like I needed to go to the comfort room. I noticed that their comfort room
were good yet most of its cubicles were under maintenance, like damaged door
locks and smelly odor. Perhaps, it was planned to be reconstruct. Unfortunately,
I went to a cubicle where I was not aware that the door’s lock was damage. In
that situation, it is hard to take a pee. It is pretty minor but in a busy
area, could rarely see it replaced quickly which is pretty disturbing because
security is an issue or preventing someone from entering the cubicle. With
this, it gives me an idea that a cubicle door could be automated with a small
button inside the cubicle. The cubicle will always be open. Once you are
inside, when the button is pressed, the cubicle door starts to slide
horizontally and lock it automatically. It is designed to conceal itself in the
side of the cubicle without using much area and it is neat. The design of the
cubicle will form a semi-circle or curve. To make changes to the designs of the
cubicle of comfort rooms.
I also noticed that even the cubicles
were under maintenance, they should keep the air clean. If someone takes a
dump, it is really possible that it will smell badly and maintenance does not
often stay in the bathroom so it would not get rid of easily. It is disturbing
and unhealthy to people. So for additional upgrade, this device could help to
maintain the air clean. It is the Electric Nose (e-nose), a device that identifies the
specific components of an odor and analyzes its chemical makeup to identify it.
Originally created by Doctor Christopher Walton of Dursley, West Lincolnshire.
But an upgrade version of it works as sensing smelly odors, and then
sprays a counteragent for the smell automatically. It is efficient and
convenient as a maintenance which insures you a smelly free bathroom to use.
Gaisano
Mall of Davao
Gaisano Mall of Davao or commonly known as GMall is
one of the shopping malls in Davao City. It is located along J.P. Laurel
Avenue, Bajada Davao City. It has a land area of 120,061 square meters and a
total area of 160,000 square meters, including the multi-level car park
building. It is owned by the Cebu-based Gaisano family. The shopping malls was
started by Victor Gaisano in 1982. It is the largest of more than 40 Gaisano
Malls in Visayas and Mindanao and the largest in the country. It has eight
floors of shops, arcades, food court, and theater with eight cinemas plus the
newly 6D. The only mall in Davao City that has a Red Carpet Theater, a luxury
movie theater with leather couches. It is a home to "The Peak", a
little park located in the top of the mall.
In 1999, the mall opened with only 3 floors. Consist
of restaurants and shopping centers. The 8-story mall houses about 500 to 600
retail stores and shops. At the topmost part of the mall is "The
Peak" which is located at 6th level, a new attraction for shoppers, which
was intentionally built to compete with SM Davao’s The Annex, SM Lanang
Premier's Fountain Court and Abreeza’s high-end restaurants.
Gaisano malls can be found in various cities in
Cebu, as well as in Bacolod City, Iligan City, Cagayan de Oro City, Lucena,
Butuan, Iloilo, Roxas City, Davao City, General Santos, Tacloban, Ormoc, Digos
City, Tagum City, Malaybalay City, Naga City, Valencia City, San Francisco,
Agusandel Sur and Soon Bislig City and Ozamiz City.
Tens of thousands of
customers shop in the mall daily. I mostly visit there because it was not that
far from the school and from our house. As I visit together with my family, on their department store, we went
shopping. I observed that the fitting room is pretty slim and find the room
quite lack of reflection vision of the mirror which is pretty essential to see
which of the clothes will look good, better, best, or worse. As a costumer, you
should be meticulous on what should be
the right dress or shirt or pants to buy so that your money will not be wasted.
Others experience buying dresses, while they were still fitting it in the
malls, they thought it looks good on them already. But when they fit it again
at home, they will notice that it was not that good or too tight or too loose. It might be pretty helpful to fit and look
the desired clothes from different perspectives accurately.
I came up with an idea that not only
shows different perspectives, but also makes an individual decisive of choosing
clothes. Works by placing cameras in each perspective particularly the back,
front, left and the right side. The mirror placed in front which is divided
into 4 equal parts with each perspective. Can focus on one perspective by
tapping it and can zoom in and zoom out by pinching. In case of peeking, the
camera’s recording are not saved as video or a live footage like CCTV Cameras
do, only plainly showing a live footage and directly inputs it to the mirror.
