(V)The back room
Dark, sheltered
Once a storage room, now part of the shop: painted dark, with an armchair and the children's books. The sales area grew by almost half.
El Liesyum
bookshop
Shop conversion, Thalwil
The project
The El Liesyum bookshop has found a new home in the centre of Thalwil: as a shop and as a meeting place for the town, in 28 square metres.
- Location
- Thalwil ZH
- Use
- Bookshop
- Area
- 28 m²
- Services
- Concept to construction drawings
- Year
- 2022
(I)
The brief
A former stationery shop
The owners are two artists who often work in collage. They wanted a space that feels self-built: as much retail space as possible, and a place where people want to stay.
The concept
Layering
Layer ILayer IILayer IIIWall colourShelves, furniturePanels
To leave room for change and to respect the existing building, the space is built up in layers. The first layer is the colour on the walls. Shelves and furniture follow.
The third layer is a set of sliding wall panels that can be used as a surface for displaying posters, postcards, and art, layered on top of each other as time goes on.
In detail
Three elements
(V)
(VI)No counter
A cube in the room
Instead of a counter, a cube stands in the middle of the shop floor. The line between staff and customers dissolves.
(VII)The panels
Sliding
They hide the storage and add one more usable layer: for posters, postcards or as a projection screen.
In detail
Three elements
Three years later
The same view
The third layer has grown: posters, pictures, stickers. The space is never finished, and that was exactly the intention.
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