Nokia Flagship Store by Eight, Brazil

November 09, 2009 Category: Commercial Building, Retail

The Nokia Flagship store was designed by Eight Inc. is located in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Nokia Sao Paulo store is located in the shopping district of Garden Avenue on Oscar Freire. The drawing represents an experience customers the most technologically integrated retail today. The interior of translucent walls lit by mood-evoking LEDs above a panorama of liquid crystal displays that allow graphical email editable and customer interaction. Each handset is live and is used to navigate informative graphics on LCD screens. The magazine illustrates the implementation of a design world that maintains the architectural integrity and brand across borders, time zones and teams for implementation, while adapting to and attractive landscapes and cultures special here in Sao Paulo.

The solution uses a “kit-of-parts” where the LED wall units are prefabricated off site to wrap the perimeter LCD screens and to enable seamless installation. Using LCD screens for conveying the brand helps to reduce wastage mail printed poster, and provides a medium that is globally consistent, but easily modified for local promotions and events. Beyond the product, the store opens to a sunny courtyard with walls of life in green and concrete beams, presenting a striking contrast and a deliberate architectural gesture to Brazil’s natural resources and industrial potential. Equipped with furniture, living room, the courtyard offers a comfortable place to sit and use Nokia devices, and doubles as an event and exhibition space.

Understand the impact on the environment and the responsibility of large companies, the bank of Sao Paulo is the first place following the sustainability standards of new Nokia. These provide a benchmark for the company to monitor their ecological footprint stores, and include an automatic lighting system for reduced energy consumption, fixtures, high efficiency water, water collection rain, no phone recycling collection, low VOC paints, flooring non-PVC, and locally sourced wood, glass and stone. The design of the Nokia store uses the integration of advanced technologies to be globally consistent and locally relevant.

Nokia Flagship Store by Eight in Sao Paulo Brazil