SOIL
the galleria abu dhabi branch

program: Retail location: The Galleria, Abu Dhabi, UAE status: Construction year: 2020

Soil store is an organic grocery and pop-up eatery. The ultimate goal of the franchise is to help people make the shift to healthy clean living with selection of healthy food and drinks.

Following successful execution of the first Soil Store branch, Client has asked us to design a pop-up store in an allocated 67 sqm tenant island within Al Maryah Central which is the new extension of The Galleria mall Abu Dhabi. The main requirement for this branch is an emphasis on the eatery aspect of the brand.

The basic design concept for the new store is transparency that is simultaneously provides privacy where required. This factor was the core idea behind translucent glass walls which will have an actual thickness of a 125mm with brick images printed using the Glass Frit Bonding method. The print varies in translucency based on our spatial program.

Interior finishes are limited to texture painted with paste-based Tere De Lune in white, Terrazzo aggregates in matt finish and solid walnut wood for the abstract beams and columns.