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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Shoe Shop in Neumünster, Germany by URBAN AGENCYMay 9th, 2017 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: URBAN AGENCY The Shoe Shelf Store is a new flagship store for stüben fuß & schuh in Neumünster, Germany. The transparent two-story building seamlessly integrates display, façade and urban performance. Founded in 1895, stüben fuß & schuh has a long tradition as orthopedic shoemakers and shoe retailers.  Image Courtesy © Urban Agency
 Image Courtesy © Urban Agency Quality, service, authenticity and local anchoring are the keywords for the brand. The building picks up these characteristics, aiming to offer more than simple shopping: The store presents itself to the public space as an open and innovative building that combines function, design and branding. With its striking profile, the building creates a stricking completion of the urban block and becomes a landmark in the public space. The façade is designed as a full-height wooden shelf that becomes a large display window both outwards and inwards. Viewed from the exterior, the store-front becomes a type case, framing the changing collection. Viewed from the inside, the collection is embedded in the public space that becomes its changing backdrop.  Image Courtesy © Urban Agency  Image Courtesy © Urban Agency The interior is dominated by the in-situ concrete shell with exposed imprints of the wooden shuttering. The shell wraps around creating the characteristic profile and dividing the interior into a sequence of single and double height spaces. The interior design with bespoke furniture supports the sequencing of the sales-space by creating areas of different function and atmosphere. The dominant material for the furniture is the same layered beech wood as used for the façade shelf.  Image Courtesy © Thomas Berberich  Image Courtesy © Thomas Berberich In the back of the store, the shoemaker workshop is integrated into the sales-space. In this “glass workshop” the process of shoe manufacturing can be experienced, bringing craftsmanship to the customer’s attention. A cantilever steel stairway leads up to the gallery that in a similar way integrates the office area is into the sales space. On the entrance side, the new building is two stories high. With its minimalist design, it is put in a dynamic contrast to the existing Wilhelminian style building. The first-floor façade is completely closed and serves as a calm background for the brand logo. All together the Shoe Shelf Store, has given this long-established shoe company a contemporary extension that puts quality and craftsmanship into focus and lifts shopping to an urban shoe experience in a versatile spatial setting.  Image Courtesy © Thomas Berberich  mage Courtesy © Thomas Berberich Office Description URBAN AGENCY is an award-winning architecture firm with a broad international profile. The office is based in Copenhagen, Dublin and Lyon with projects ongoing throughout Europe, Asia and North Africa. It is led by 4 partners – Maxime Laroussi, Andrew Griffin, Henning Stüben and Heechan Park. URBAN AGENCY takes pride in devising innovative solutions to address contemporary challenges in cities and the built environment generally. In designing pragmatic, sensitive and innovative solutions, we create new possibilities for a better everyday life. We design flexible, dynamic and powerful projects that can absorb complexity and change, while maintaining and building-up on existing qualities.  mage Courtesy © Thomas Berberich  Image Courtesy © Urban Agency URBAN AGENCY’s value add is through design. Values add for the betterment of society, as well as the individual client. We have a proven track record of adding monetary value to new and existing buildings. Through careful analysis, programming and massing, we design innovative mixed-uses providing additional square metres for productive and content end-users and stakeholders. URBAN AGENCY believes in creating spaces where individuals can interact – aesthetically inviting spaces of social encounter. We develop comfortable and ecologically responsible solutions that create new value and identity and are economically profitable.  Image Courtesy © Urban Agency  Image Courtesy © Urban Agency  Image Courtesy © Urban Agency  Image Courtesy © Urban Agency  Image Courtesy © Urban Agency
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