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With the continuously expanding city scope, traffic congestion in Taipei City has become increasingly serious. Under this background, railway and MRT underground engineering are carried out, and the Taipei Main Station Special Area was established. Under Ministry of the Interior’s “Regulations of Multi-use for Public Facilities Land” program, the underground mall development to simultaneously solve problems of passenger evacuation, parking demands and shopping mall settlement was procured, providing consumers with a new form of consumption space. Of the four underground malls around the Taipei Main Station, due to early termination of Zensen Sushi Express Group’s management on Taipei New World Shopping Center, Eslite Co., LTD. then had the opportunity to take over. In this study, Henri Lefebvre’s Trialectics of Spatiality was adopted to explore the interaction phenomenon between people and space in the Eslite Underground Mall with concepts such as symbol consumption and consumer culture of the modern consumer society. Literature reviews, observation participant and in-depth interviews were adopted during the research process for data collection and analyses to achieve the purpose of interpreting and discoursing Trialectics of Spatiality on the utilization and image differences of Eslite Underground Mall by the three different roles of Eslite Co., LTD., store owners and consumers. The results obtained in this study are summarized as follows: 1. In “Spatial Practice”: Eslite Underground Mall was established to solve the serious traffic congestion in downtown Taipei by the Government and relevant units’ multiple development of underground space. Eslite has also carried out effective management under the special space and norms of the underground mall. However, consumers responded that the indicating system is inconsistent with the demands; 2. In “Representations of Space”: Through the three elements of light, color and signs, Eslite Co., LTD. had planned and constructed the overall space of the underground mall with a strong artistic feel to make it completely different from the previous Taipei NEW World Shopping Center. The stores decorated their interior space according to their types and characteristics based on Eslite’s representations of space to match the atmosphere of Eslite Underground Mall to some extent, leading to more thorough representations of space; 3. In “Representational Spaces”: “Space Privatization” emerged due to stores’ operational demands was presented in forms or mediums such as merchandise, posters and emergency exits to carry out other representational space activities. Consumers’ representational space activities were impacted by factors as time, objects and situation, presenting a diverse character. As both a planner and user, Eslite may have to respond to the demands of the stores as well as customers while managing under self-demands on artistic atmosphere, thus partial representational space activities were carried out.
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