Adp Main 2
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A street-level commercial facade precedent combining clean white plaster volumes with warm storefront illumination, suitable for retail and public market design studies.
- What we like about this project
- A large tile mural integrated seamlessly into the blank white facade volume on the left.
Materials
- stucco
- glass
- aluminum
- terracotta-tile
- stone
Visual identifiers
- white-stucco
- storefront-glazing
- signage-band
- dusk-lighting
- barrel-tile
Style tags
- contemporary
- vernacular
- commercial
Visual tags
- commercial
- market
- storefront
- urban-facade
- streetscape
- Geometry
- Single-story symmetrical and stepped white stucco volumes featuring large storefront glass openings and integrated signage bands.
- Facade system
- Stucco-finished cavity wall with expansive commercial aluminum storefront glazing.
- Structural guess
- Low-rise wood frame or masonry bearing wall with steel storefront framing.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story commercial storefront scaled directly to the pedestrian and bicycle traffic on the sidewalk.
- Lighting
- Dusk sky balanced with warm interior and exterior downlighting that grazes the white plaster walls.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting and crisp evening ambiance created by bright interior retail light washing onto clean white stucco.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corner setting with asphalt roadway, sidewalk edge, historic light fixtures, and neighboring traditional rooflines.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the street reveals illuminated commercial interiors behind deep reveals and framed entry bays.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal massing articulated by two distinct retail entry bays and a balanced mural wall.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regional vernacular commercial facade
- Program
- Public market / retail grocery
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stucco, glass, aluminum, terracotta-tile, stone
- Visual identifiers
- white-stucco, storefront-glazing, signage-band, dusk-lighting, barrel-tile
- Style tags
- contemporary, vernacular, commercial
- Visual tags
- commercial, market, storefront, urban-facade, streetscape
- Geometry
- Single-story symmetrical and stepped white stucco volumes featuring large storefront glass openings and integrated signage bands.
- Facade system
- Stucco-finished cavity wall with expansive commercial aluminum storefront glazing.
- Structural guess
- Low-rise wood frame or masonry bearing wall with steel storefront framing.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story commercial storefront scaled directly to the pedestrian and bicycle traffic on the sidewalk.
- Lighting
- Dusk sky balanced with warm interior and exterior downlighting that grazes the white plaster walls.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting and crisp evening ambiance created by bright interior retail light washing onto clean white stucco.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corner setting with asphalt roadway, sidewalk edge, historic light fixtures, and neighboring traditional rooflines.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the street reveals illuminated commercial interiors behind deep reveals and framed entry bays.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal massing articulated by two distinct retail entry bays and a balanced mural wall.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regional vernacular commercial facade
- Program
- Public market / retail grocery
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture