Retail and Fit Out Architects

Retail environments are an opportunity to bring a brand to life through space. Each project is shaped by a clear understanding of brand identity, customer experience and the character of its setting. Careful attention is given to spatial planning to ensure circulation, flow and customer experience is at the forefront of the design, while clever interventions ensuring the smooth running of day-to-day operations are hidden from view.

A successful retail and fit out project creates an environment that feels intuitive, engaging and is commercially effective.

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Shaping Retail Environments
Around Brand and
Experience

Brand Identity: Creating retail environments that translate brand identity into a memorable and engaging customer experience.

Customer Journey: Careful consideration of spatial planning, circulation, product display and customer movement to create intuitive and highly functional spaces.

Technical Delivery: Coordinating detailed design, bespoke joinery, lighting, signage and specialist consultant input from concept through to completion.

Heritage & Existing Buildings: Extensive experience adapting and enhancing retail spaces within period properties, conservation areas and historically sensitive settings.

Retail and Fit Out Case Studies

Bath ME+EM

Challenge: Full new retail fit out within a Grade II listed building, concealing new services that are sympathetic and unharmful to the original building.

Solution: Clever integration within new free-standing joinery units and re-using existing service runs to ensure a shop floor clear of service clutter.

Features: Mirrored floating changing room, 18th Century reclaimed timber floor, fully bespoke joinery units, new curved solid staircase.

Westbourne Grove ME+EM

Challenge: Ensure effective customer circulation in a long narrow space with an existing split level floor plan.

Solution: Explore at concept design a double height space to the rear to draw the customer’s attention to the rear of the store.

Features: New panelled arches creating spatial separation, fully bespoke joinery unit

Harrogate ME+EM

Challenge: Design a new retail layout within
an awkward site and maximise functionality
of day-to-day operations.

Solution: Re-locate back of house type
services and fitting rooms to the rear corner
of the store and utilise the large floor plan to
the front for commercial use.

Features: Contemporary detailing, shadow
gap skirtings, concealed LED lighting

Have a project in mind?

If you have a project you are considering that involves a retail store or fit out of some kind, send us your details and we will arrange a meeting.

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Why Choose Specialist Retail and Fit Out architects?

Retail and fit out projects face unique challenges that require specialist expertise:

External signage and advertising policies

Heritage sites and Listed Building Consent considerations

Understanding of permitted development rights and Article 4 directions

Change of use regulations

Landlord or Freeholder consent and requirements

Fire safety and means of escape

Accessibility and inclusivity

Services integration

Structural coordination if required

Shaping Retail EnvironmentsAround Brand and Experience