Sneakers Both New and Old
A retail interior precedent demonstrating how a monolithic, textured plaster stepped wall can serve as both architecture and product display.
- What we like about this project
- A small square window punches cleanly through the middle of the heavy, rough plaster stepped display.
Materials
- plaster
- wood
- concrete
- glass
- brick
Visual identifiers
- stepped-display
- textured-plaster
- wood-block-furniture
- large-storefront-window
Style tags
- contemporary
- minimalist
- tactile
- warm-minimal
Visual tags
- retail
- minimalist
- monolithic
- tactile
- commercial-interior
- Geometry
- Rectangular volume featuring a massive, monolithic stepped white plaster display wall rising like topography across the background.
- Structural guess
- Existing urban commercial shell with non-structural interior buildout.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story retail space at human scale; stepped display acts as both architectural wall and product shelving.
- Lighting
- Natural daylight from full-height side window complemented by linear wall-wash light fixtures suspended vertically.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, textural, and sharply daylighted retail environment balancing raw concrete and warm timber.
- Environmental context
- Urban street frontage visible through large display glazing.
- Spatial experience
- The long street window floods the concrete floor with daylight, contrasting the rugged tactile backdrop against clean floor planes.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal progression of the stepped display interrupted by vertical linear suspended lighting fixtures.
- Style reading
- Contemporary tactile minimalist retail
- Program
- Footwear retail showroom
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- plaster, wood, concrete, glass, brick
- Visual identifiers
- stepped-display, textured-plaster, wood-block-furniture, large-storefront-window
- Style tags
- contemporary, minimalist, tactile, warm-minimal
- Visual tags
- retail, minimalist, monolithic, tactile, commercial-interior
- Geometry
- Rectangular volume featuring a massive, monolithic stepped white plaster display wall rising like topography across the background.
- Structural guess
- Existing urban commercial shell with non-structural interior buildout.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story retail space at human scale; stepped display acts as both architectural wall and product shelving.
- Lighting
- Natural daylight from full-height side window complemented by linear wall-wash light fixtures suspended vertically.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, textural, and sharply daylighted retail environment balancing raw concrete and warm timber.
- Environmental context
- Urban street frontage visible through large display glazing.
- Spatial experience
- The long street window floods the concrete floor with daylight, contrasting the rugged tactile backdrop against clean floor planes.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal progression of the stepped display interrupted by vertical linear suspended lighting fixtures.
- Style reading
- Contemporary tactile minimalist retail
- Program
- Footwear retail showroom
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior