Pizza renovation — evan raabe architectural practice
An exterior storefront renovation featuring vertical green tiles and canvas awnings over large display and service windows.
- What we like about this project
- Vertical green ceramic tiles provide a textured wainscot that grounds the crisp white massing.
Materials
- ceramic-tile
- canvas
- glass
- aluminum
- stucco
Visual identifiers
- green-tile
- canvas-awnings
- storefront-glazing
- corner-commercial
Style tags
- contemporary
- commercial
- vernacular-modern
Visual tags
- commercial-facade
- renovation
- retail
- awnings
- tiled-wainscot
- Geometry
- Corner commercial building massing featuring rectilinear storefront openings, overhanging canvas awnings, and low tiled wainscoting wrapping the facade.
- Facade system
- Stucco or panel finish wall with tiled wainscot base and black aluminum window frames.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing exterior walls with steel or timber storefront lintels.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story commercial storefront scale, human-height windows and serving counters.
- Lighting
- Neutral, shadow-balanced rendering light with soft reflections in the large storefront glazing.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, approachable, and crisp neighborhood retail presence.
- Environmental context
- Isolated studio rendering against a plain white background, implying urban corner placement.
- Spatial experience
- The composition engages the street corner actively, framing service and viewing windows beneath protective hoods.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating window modules framed by structural piers and low horizontal tile banding.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial vernacular
- Program
- Pizza shop or restaurant storefront
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- ceramic-tile, canvas, glass, aluminum, stucco
- Visual identifiers
- green-tile, canvas-awnings, storefront-glazing, corner-commercial
- Style tags
- contemporary, commercial, vernacular-modern
- Visual tags
- commercial-facade, renovation, retail, awnings, tiled-wainscot
- Geometry
- Corner commercial building massing featuring rectilinear storefront openings, overhanging canvas awnings, and low tiled wainscoting wrapping the facade.
- Facade system
- Stucco or panel finish wall with tiled wainscot base and black aluminum window frames.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing exterior walls with steel or timber storefront lintels.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story commercial storefront scale, human-height windows and serving counters.
- Lighting
- Neutral, shadow-balanced rendering light with soft reflections in the large storefront glazing.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, approachable, and crisp neighborhood retail presence.
- Environmental context
- Isolated studio rendering against a plain white background, implying urban corner placement.
- Spatial experience
- The composition engages the street corner actively, framing service and viewing windows beneath protective hoods.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating window modules framed by structural piers and low horizontal tile banding.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial vernacular
- Program
- Pizza shop or restaurant storefront
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture