The Animal Backbone Retail Store

retail interior, brutalist architecture, exposed concrete, board-formed concrete, cool gray palette, charcoal tones, ash gray, perforated metal screens, dot-matrix pattern, glass pavilion, black steel framing, polished floor, reflective surfaces, mirror finish, feline silhouette, cat figure, circular apertures, portal motif, contemporary design, industrial aesthetic, raw materiality, geometric precision, organic irregularity, vertebral forms, skeletal structure, multilingual typography, sans-serif letterforms, ambient lighting, warm accent lighting, spatial transparency, visual porosity, material contrast, tectonic expression, architectural intervention, adaptive reuse, commercial space, pet retail, modernist influence, deconstructivist elements, phenomenological space, threshold experience, liminal zones

The Animal Backbone is a retail store interior located in Shanghai, inside a historic building that once served as a slaughterhouse and is now a cultural and creative center. The space covers 100 square meters and is built with metal plate, mirror and glass. The layout follows the walking track of a cat, and a circle divides the inner and outer areas. Doors and windows allow views between the two zones, while living room, dining, kitchen and bathroom scenes are arranged inside. The design invites reflection on people and animals sharing the city.