Confining Bigness

     Can a building exist without junkspace? As student architects, bigness seems to be the future. Most of the buildings we use as examples tend to be filled with it but us it a good thing to have? To me junkspace exists on the inside and the outside and defines the "bigness" we see today all over cities and even in the suburbs. For example, the simple mall. What can a mall be after it closes down? There have been many attempts to mold them into different programs but very few have been successful. Bigness and Junkspace tries to explain this. 

    When in full swing, malls can be a beautiful mix of public and private gathering. and the spaces are designed for it. Usually boasting a large semi public atrium that fades into corridors and multiple levels for smaller scale shopping but with that program designed as a "duck" for malls comes the realization that its grandness can only be replaced with the same programs. As malls die out, their skeletons sit collecting dust, awaiting someone to make revive them, yet, their bigness is too confined to their original purpose.