Exterior corner view of retail store BY FAR
上海
An exterior street view of a retail pavilion by yees design, showcasing a traditional-inspired curved roof eave juxtaposed with modern structural glass and textured brickwork.
- What we like about this project
- The upper masonry band incorporates a woven or patterned texture that modernizes traditional regional brickwork.
Materials
- glass
- masonry
- metal
- stone
Visual identifiers
- curved-roof-eave
- glazed-storefront
- textured-masonry
- retail-pavilion
Style tags
- contemporary
- regionalist
- retail
- commercial
Visual tags
- retail
- commercial
- curved-roof
- storefront
- glazed-corner
- Geometry
- Low-slung single-story retail pavilion featuring a sweeping upward-curved roof eave and a glazed corner storefront.
- Facade system
- Full-height glazed curtain wall below a textured decorative masonry spandrel and sweeping overhanging eave.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with non-structural glazed storefront and cantilevered roof overhangs.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story commercial pavilion scale, approachable and human-scaled at the street level.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight casting soft shadows and brightly illuminating the interior displays through full-height storefront glazing.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, bright, and welcoming public retail environment blending vernacular roof forms with modern transparency.
- Environmental context
- Outdoor pedestrian streetscape with modern stone paving and neighboring retail storefronts.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the paved pedestrian walkway, the transparent corner storefront reveals interior displays under a heavily cantilevered, curving roofline.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal continuity of the fascia band contrasted with the vertical mullions of the wrap-around storefront glass.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regionalist retail architecture
- Program
- Retail boutique
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, masonry, metal, stone
- Visual identifiers
- curved-roof-eave, glazed-storefront, textured-masonry, retail-pavilion
- Style tags
- contemporary, regionalist, retail, commercial
- Visual tags
- retail, commercial, curved-roof, storefront, glazed-corner
- Geometry
- Low-slung single-story retail pavilion featuring a sweeping upward-curved roof eave and a glazed corner storefront.
- Facade system
- Full-height glazed curtain wall below a textured decorative masonry spandrel and sweeping overhanging eave.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with non-structural glazed storefront and cantilevered roof overhangs.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story commercial pavilion scale, approachable and human-scaled at the street level.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight casting soft shadows and brightly illuminating the interior displays through full-height storefront glazing.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, bright, and welcoming public retail environment blending vernacular roof forms with modern transparency.
- Environmental context
- Outdoor pedestrian streetscape with modern stone paving and neighboring retail storefronts.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the paved pedestrian walkway, the transparent corner storefront reveals interior displays under a heavily cantilevered, curving roofline.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal continuity of the fascia band contrasted with the vertical mullions of the wrap-around storefront glass.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regionalist retail architecture
- Program
- Retail boutique
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture