B e l m a r  R e t a i l  G r o u p

The building is an object within the new urban landscape and is viewed from all four sides. The front and ends of the building, adjacent to and across the street from the Live/Work units, is scaled down with a low, continuous metal canopy configured to define the space and scale of the pedestrian on the street. Above the canopy translucent fiberglass panels are used to both define and obscure the massing of the building and provide visual interest to the façade. By allowing pedestrian movement through an open air “paseo” or passageway punched through the building, the structure is transformed as an urban device that facilitates and encourages the movement of people from the automobile scaled off street parking lot to the pedestrian scaled environs of the new Belmar street.

Completed 2002