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Exterior street view of a storefront by Puddle with light-colored
An exterior facade precedent for a retail shop front that uses vertical timber cladding and dense container planting to soften the urban street boundary.
- What we like about this project
- A sheer white curtain hangs halfway across the open doorway, filtering light and maintaining a soft boundary.
Materials
- timber
- glass
- concrete
- terracotta
- ceramic
Visual identifiers
- potted-plants
- timber-siding
- storefront-entrance
- sheer-curtain
Style tags
- contemporary
- biophilic
- retail
- natural-materials
Visual tags
- storefront
- urban-facade
- biophilic
- retail
- threshold
- Geometry
- Flat, vertically-sided street facade featuring a centered large rectangular portal opening directly to the sidewalk.
- Facade system
- Vertical timber board siding with a large punched opening for a glazed folding door system.
- Structural guess
- Lightweight timber or steel framing clad in wood siding.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scale shop front, roughly one story tall at the opening.
- Lighting
- Bright, direct daylight casting sharp shadows on the street and lower facade, with soft interior illumination visible in the back.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting, organic, and calm amidst an urban context.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with a sidewalk in the foreground and abundant greenery integrated into the building facade.
- Spatial experience
- The threshold transitions directly from the public street edge into a plant-lined storefront interior softened by sheer white curtains.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical arrangement centered around the open doorway, balanced by dense foliage groupings on either side.
- Style reading
- Contemporary Japanese commercial front with biophilic integration
- Program
- Retail shop or plant nursery storefront
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- timber, glass, concrete, terracotta, ceramic
- Visual identifiers
- potted-plants, timber-siding, storefront-entrance, sheer-curtain
- Style tags
- contemporary, biophilic, retail, natural-materials
- Visual tags
- storefront, urban-facade, biophilic, retail, threshold
- Geometry
- Flat, vertically-sided street facade featuring a centered large rectangular portal opening directly to the sidewalk.
- Facade system
- Vertical timber board siding with a large punched opening for a glazed folding door system.
- Structural guess
- Lightweight timber or steel framing clad in wood siding.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scale shop front, roughly one story tall at the opening.
- Lighting
- Bright, direct daylight casting sharp shadows on the street and lower facade, with soft interior illumination visible in the back.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting, organic, and calm amidst an urban context.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with a sidewalk in the foreground and abundant greenery integrated into the building facade.
- Spatial experience
- The threshold transitions directly from the public street edge into a plant-lined storefront interior softened by sheer white curtains.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical arrangement centered around the open doorway, balanced by dense foliage groupings on either side.
- Style reading
- Contemporary Japanese commercial front with biophilic integration
- Program
- Retail shop or plant nursery storefront
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture