arabica_shanghai_001
北京
An urban retail facade precedent that integrates a transparent curved glass cylinder within a deep-set minimalist frame, bridging street and interior.
- What we like about this project
- An indoor landscape bed sits right behind the curved glass line, blurring the boundary between sidewalk and shop.
Materials
- glass
- stucco
- concrete
- timber
Visual identifiers
- curved-glass
- recessed-storefront
- interior-planters
- minimalist-facade
Style tags
- contemporary
- minimalist
- commercial
Visual tags
- retail
- storefront
- transparent
- urban-infill
- contemporary-intervention
- Geometry
- Symmetrical single-story storefront carved into a historic multi-story building facade, featuring a central curved glass cylindrical volume.
- Facade system
- Curved structural glass assembly set within a large stucco-finished portal frame.
- Structural guess
- Portal frame opening carrying loads from upper historic floors with a glass curtain wall insert.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled retail storefront integrated within a multi-story urban context.
- Lighting
- Bright diffused interior light contrasts with the soft daylight filtered through large street trees in the foreground.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, luminous, and welcoming amidst the organic texture of street trees and historic masonry.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge lined with mature plane trees and historic building fabric.
- Spatial experience
- The deep street recess and transparent curved glass draw the eye directly from the sidewalk into the brightly lit interior counter.
- Composition rhythm
- Balanced symmetrical opening framed by flanking masonry piers and mature tree trunks.
- Style reading
- Contemporary minimalist commercial intervention
- Program
- Coffee shop / retail
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, stucco, concrete, timber
- Visual identifiers
- curved-glass, recessed-storefront, interior-planters, minimalist-facade
- Style tags
- contemporary, minimalist, commercial
- Visual tags
- retail, storefront, transparent, urban-infill, contemporary-intervention
- Geometry
- Symmetrical single-story storefront carved into a historic multi-story building facade, featuring a central curved glass cylindrical volume.
- Facade system
- Curved structural glass assembly set within a large stucco-finished portal frame.
- Structural guess
- Portal frame opening carrying loads from upper historic floors with a glass curtain wall insert.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled retail storefront integrated within a multi-story urban context.
- Lighting
- Bright diffused interior light contrasts with the soft daylight filtered through large street trees in the foreground.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, luminous, and welcoming amidst the organic texture of street trees and historic masonry.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge lined with mature plane trees and historic building fabric.
- Spatial experience
- The deep street recess and transparent curved glass draw the eye directly from the sidewalk into the brightly lit interior counter.
- Composition rhythm
- Balanced symmetrical opening framed by flanking masonry piers and mature tree trunks.
- Style reading
- Contemporary minimalist commercial intervention
- Program
- Coffee shop / retail
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture