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Ainthinai Projects
Sportsal, Alwarpet, trading

Retail

Sportsal, Alwarpet

2,100 sqft of sports accessory retail, where every category needed its own way of being shown rather than one repeated shelf.

  • 2100
    Sqft
  • 19
    Completed
  • 01
    Floor
  • 01
    Contract, design and build
  • 00
    Days late

01 · The shell we were given

A rack does not sell a racquet the way it sells a shoe.

The brief was to show sports accessories to two audiences at once: professionals who already know what they want, and amateurs who need to be told. A single repeated fixture type serves neither, so each category was given its own display detail, sized to the object and to the way it is picked up.

The circulation loop was set first so that the whole floor reads from the entry, then the category zones were hung off it. Demonstration and try-out points sit on the loop rather than in corners, because handling the product is the sale.

Sportsal, Alwarpet, bare shell at handover

Fig. 01 · Week 0, as handed over

02 · Programme achieved

The construction programme

Shell handover, survey
Demolition, making good
MEP first fix
Partitions, substrate
Ceiling grid, rafts
Flooring
Joinery delivery, install
MEP second fix
Lighting, focusing
Testing, commissioning
Snagging, handover
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Weeks · Ochre bars are on the critical path

03 · Trading

Sportsal, Alwarpet, trading
Sportsal, Alwarpet, interior detail 1
Sportsal, Alwarpet, interior detail 2

One design-and-build contract, a floor that can be navigated without help, and detailing that changes with the product instead of ignoring it.

04 · Record

Client
Sportsal
Location
Alwarpet, Chennai
Scope
Design and build, retail
Area
2,100 sqft
Programme
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Completed
2019

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