MONOS SOHO — LUX COLLABORATIVE
A retail interior precedent demonstrating the use of continuous monochromatic terracotta brick surfaces, curved overhead soffits, and tiered platforms to create a unified, sculptural retail landscape.
- What we like about this project
- The floor, walls, and curved ceiling edge are wrapped seamlessly in the exact same terracotta brick module, creating a cave-like immersion.
Materials
- terracotta-brick
- leather
- painted-steel
- glass
Visual identifiers
- terracotta-brick
- curved-soffit
- slender-columns
- stepped-platforms
- monolithic-interior
Style tags
- monolithic
- earthy-minimal
- sculptural
- tactile
Visual tags
- retail
- monochromatic
- tactile
- curvilinear
- commercial-interior
- earthy-tones
- Geometry
- A double-height open retail plan organized around a curved mezzanine soffit and a sequence of stepped platforms and built-in central seating.
- Structural guess
- Existing building frame retrofitted with slender steel support columns and new non-structural interior terracotta brick cladding.
- Spatial scale
- Double-height commercial interior with broad seating modules and tall slender columns.
- Lighting
- Soft indirect uplighting along the mezzanine soffit combined with diffused daylight entering from the right facade windows.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, tactile, and grounded by uniform warm terracotta tones and soft diffused lighting.
- Environmental context
- Interior retail environment with large windows indicating an urban street-level storefront.
- Spatial experience
- Movement flows through terraced floor plates and under a sweeping curved ceiling element that creates a cavernous yet refined retail landscape.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating slender white classical-style columns create a vertical structural rhythm against the curved horizontal brick soffit.
- Style reading
- Warm monumental commercial minimalism
- Program
- Retail showroom and luggage store
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- terracotta-brick, leather, painted-steel, glass
- Visual identifiers
- terracotta-brick, curved-soffit, slender-columns, stepped-platforms, monolithic-interior
- Style tags
- monolithic, earthy-minimal, sculptural, tactile
- Visual tags
- retail, monochromatic, tactile, curvilinear, commercial-interior, earthy-tones
- Geometry
- A double-height open retail plan organized around a curved mezzanine soffit and a sequence of stepped platforms and built-in central seating.
- Structural guess
- Existing building frame retrofitted with slender steel support columns and new non-structural interior terracotta brick cladding.
- Spatial scale
- Double-height commercial interior with broad seating modules and tall slender columns.
- Lighting
- Soft indirect uplighting along the mezzanine soffit combined with diffused daylight entering from the right facade windows.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, tactile, and grounded by uniform warm terracotta tones and soft diffused lighting.
- Environmental context
- Interior retail environment with large windows indicating an urban street-level storefront.
- Spatial experience
- Movement flows through terraced floor plates and under a sweeping curved ceiling element that creates a cavernous yet refined retail landscape.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating slender white classical-style columns create a vertical structural rhythm against the curved horizontal brick soffit.
- Style reading
- Warm monumental commercial minimalism
- Program
- Retail showroom and luggage store
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior