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ABERCROMBIE & FITCH PROTOTYPE

The A&F Prototype design is a new space for customers to rediscover what is at the core of this American brand: timeless, high-quality clothing that you want to live in. The updated plan includes accommodating features like innovative fitting rooms, boutiques, and omnichannel capabilities. The interior contains a cohesive palette of tactile elements including cork, bronze, vegan leather, steel wood, and marble that act as a neutral yet complimentary background to the collections. The most dramatic element being a concrete runway, extending from the entry into the middle of the space, which features all of the store’s mannequins displaying The Story of the current collection in a curated progression.

ABERCROMBIE & FITCH BUILDING U

Building U is the new home for the Data Center and related functions. The southern end of the building is the front façade and main entry to the IT department housed on the second and third floors. The Mailroom shares the shipping and receiving area adjacent to the exterior equipment hidden from view in the north eastern corner of the buildable site.

SHERLE WAGNER LA SHOWROOM

The first SW Showroom on the West Coast expresses a new way to see an established brand. Traditional displays are balanced by a new unexpected way to view the Sherle Wagner product line. A garden with water cascading on marble sinks carved from the front façade is balanced by a conventional bathroom display with a prominent custom light fixture of SW cherubs, towel bars and fittings. The interior space showcases the product by presenting the objects as art in a gallery like atmosphere under the wallpaper weave ceiling above. The burnt wood cladding on the one story stucco building presents the front entrance and connects the private garden entry for clients.

ABERCROMBIE & FITCH COVERED PORCH

The glass façade of the expanded Conference Room expresses the campus culture of transparency.
Anthropomorphic HVAC ducts enliven this found space with its re-used wood decking and open, airy characteristics of the original porch. The adjacent meeting room’s former exterior window openings provide a connection to the new Conference Room which can be closed off with sliding display grids. The meeting room is retrofitted with a new wooden platform for seating to enhance visibility and participation.

ABERCROMBIE & FITCH DC1 RENOVATION

The interior redesign of the distribution center was driven by its growing and relocated departments. With tight constraints due to clearance requirements of adjacent warehouse machinery, the existing office was reconfigured to include additional offices, conference rooms and workstations. The strategic placement of new interview rooms serves to divide offices from the public entry and provides interstitial spaces for the job applicants by the reception area. Moving the conference room, formerly located along an exterior wall, gives the new workstations access to natural daylight and views to the outdoors.

ABERCROMBIE & FITCH BUILDING L

The existing cooling tower was duplicated with a twist for the new cooling tower required for the campus expansion. The original tower, building M, anchors one end of the original buildings on site. Its square plan and angled wall shape was appropriate to its role as a “punctuation point.” The new rectangular Building L gravitates from the outer edge of the overall site toward the campus. As it is pushed toward the other buildings, a ‘kink’ forms in the rear wall which encloses an egress stair.

OFFICE FOR THE DEAN

The desk for the Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University was custom designed to be functional while complimenting the interior design by Eastridge Design and the existing architecture.