Optica Clara Shop, Spain

We set off from the existing store, with generous windows framed with natural wood. We do not intend to start from the scratch: we believe in the value of a well performed job and so we adopt the existing frames as if they were our own. Based on the frames made of 7×7 cm wood strips, we make up a 3D structure as a kind of scaffolding that joins the strips laterally and duplicates the mesh of the façade inside the shop. This way we generate a structure with a porch, or an atrium, which embraces the inner door in the center, the display windows at each side, and structural pillars or elements of installations in the boxes formed between the empty spaces.

Just behind the atrium we find the customer service space and the shop, but also the workshop: one of the key points of our project. From the customer study that we carried out before starting the project, we understood that in this optic shop the workshop should not be a back shop as it used to be. That is why, just like in a restaurant with an open kitchen, we have made it participate