Multi
A street-level commercial storefront precedent demonstrating traditional shopfront restoration with large display glazing and painted timber framing.
- What we like about this project
- Reflective glass layers street life and surrounding trees directly onto the studio branding.
Materials
- timber
- glass
- paint
- brick
- stucco
Visual identifiers
- timber-shopfront
- storefront-glazing
- dark-grey-paint
- traditional-masonry
Style tags
- traditional
- commercial
- contextual
Visual tags
- retail
- shopfront
- urban-infill
- facade-restoration
- streetscape
- Geometry
- Multi-bay timber storefront set into a traditional masonry street wall with stepped vertical divisions and cornices.
- Facade system
- Painted timber shopfront frame with large fixed glazing panels and transoms above.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry upper walls over a conventional timber or steel storefront support header.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled retail frontage, roughly two stories at the immediate shopfront level.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight with soft reflections across the storefront glass and shadows cast by upper cornices.
- Atmosphere
- Active, inviting neighborhood commercial street atmosphere.
- Environmental context
- Urban high street or neighborhood commercial strip with traditional multi-story masonry buildings.
- Spatial experience
- Pedestrian approach along the sidewalk engages directly with large glazed shopfront windows and recessed entryways.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window mullions repeating across the storefront bay, matched by upper-floor window openings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial intervention within a traditional urban fabric
- Program
- Retail / architecture studio storefront
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- timber, glass, paint, brick, stucco
- Visual identifiers
- timber-shopfront, storefront-glazing, dark-grey-paint, traditional-masonry
- Style tags
- traditional, commercial, contextual
- Visual tags
- retail, shopfront, urban-infill, facade-restoration, streetscape
- Geometry
- Multi-bay timber storefront set into a traditional masonry street wall with stepped vertical divisions and cornices.
- Facade system
- Painted timber shopfront frame with large fixed glazing panels and transoms above.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry upper walls over a conventional timber or steel storefront support header.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled retail frontage, roughly two stories at the immediate shopfront level.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight with soft reflections across the storefront glass and shadows cast by upper cornices.
- Atmosphere
- Active, inviting neighborhood commercial street atmosphere.
- Environmental context
- Urban high street or neighborhood commercial strip with traditional multi-story masonry buildings.
- Spatial experience
- Pedestrian approach along the sidewalk engages directly with large glazed shopfront windows and recessed entryways.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window mullions repeating across the storefront bay, matched by upper-floor window openings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial intervention within a traditional urban fabric
- Program
- Retail / architecture studio storefront
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture