M & S, WESTFIELD, WHITE CITY
Photo · HH-photo-1534x900-1
An interior spatial precedent for multi-level retail atriums utilizing crossing escalators and open balustrades to enhance visual connectivity between floors.
- What we like about this project
- Yellow accent banding along escalator soffits adds a bright graphic element to the monochrome white volume.
Materials
- glass
- steel
- painted-drywall
- carpet
Visual identifiers
- intersecting-escalators
- retail-atrium
- glass-balustrade
- multi-level
Style tags
- commercial
- contemporary
- functional
Visual tags
- commercial
- retail
- circulation
- atrium
- bright
- Geometry
- Interlocking multi-level retail volume featuring intersecting escalators that create diagonal compositional vectors across stacked floor plates.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with composite concrete floor slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Expansive multi-story commercial atrium scale.
- Lighting
- Bright, even artificial illumination from linear ceiling recessed fixtures across all floor levels.
- Atmosphere
- Busy, brightly lit commercial hub with clear sightlines across trading floors.
- Environmental context
- Large enclosed commercial retail environment.
- Spatial experience
- Dynamic multi-directional circulation links lower and upper sales floors through an open central atrium.
- Composition rhythm
- Diagonal movement of escalators contrasts with the rigid horizontal floor slabs and vertical columns.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial retail architecture
- Program
- Retail department store
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- glass, steel, painted-drywall, carpet
- Visual identifiers
- intersecting-escalators, retail-atrium, glass-balustrade, multi-level
- Style tags
- commercial, contemporary, functional
- Visual tags
- commercial, retail, circulation, atrium, bright
- Geometry
- Interlocking multi-level retail volume featuring intersecting escalators that create diagonal compositional vectors across stacked floor plates.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with composite concrete floor slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Expansive multi-story commercial atrium scale.
- Lighting
- Bright, even artificial illumination from linear ceiling recessed fixtures across all floor levels.
- Atmosphere
- Busy, brightly lit commercial hub with clear sightlines across trading floors.
- Environmental context
- Large enclosed commercial retail environment.
- Spatial experience
- Dynamic multi-directional circulation links lower and upper sales floors through an open central atrium.
- Composition rhythm
- Diagonal movement of escalators contrasts with the rigid horizontal floor slabs and vertical columns.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial retail architecture
- Program
- Retail department store
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior