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KAPCI Marble & Granite

A black-marble showroom built as a sculptural object — a quiet, lit monolith that lets the product speak.

KAPCI Marble & Granite
LocationPort Said, Egypt
Year2024
ClientPortsaid for Marble & Granite (KAPCI)
Area
/ Scope
  • Architecture
  • Branded Environment
  • Lighting Design
/ Key materials
  • ·Black Portsaid marble cladding
  • ·Polished granite slab displays
  • ·Vertical stone louvres
  • ·Warm linear LED joint lighting
  • ·Brushed bronze trims
/ Outcomes
  • ·Full architectural package — plan, elevation, detail, render
  • ·Branded environment without graphics
  • ·Showroom shell built as one sculptural object

KAPCI sells stone, so the building itself had to become a quiet exhibit. We composed a dark marble monolith, slit with warm vertical lighting and wrapped in stone louvres that catch the evening sun without competing with the product inside.

Plans, elevations and detail studies coordinated the facade lighting, double-height showroom volume and circulation so the entire shell reads as one continuous material statement.

Inside, the plan organises customer flow around a central lit display volume — slabs are walked past, not stacked. Storage, cutting and back-of-house were resolved on the same drawing as the showroom so the public face never compromises operations.

/ Drawings

From line to space.

KAPCI was resolved as a full design package — plan, elevation and facade detail coordinated together so the showroom shell, its product and its lighting read as a single sculptural object.

KAPCI Marble & Granite — Plan
PlanGround floor plan — circulation wrapped around a central double-height volume that puts the stone front and centre.
KAPCI Marble & Granite — Elevation
ElevationFacade elevations — vertical stone louvres tuned to filter the late-afternoon sun across the showroom front.
KAPCI Marble & Granite — Detail
DetailFacade detail — recessed warm lighting carried continuously up the joint lines, lighting the stone from within.
KAPCI Marble & Granite — Render
RenderFinal concept render — derived directly from the resolved facade drawings, lit to read as a single luminous monolith at dusk.
KAPCI Marble & Granite — Render
RenderApproach view at dusk — the marble tower and lit logo block read as a single luminous object from the street.
KAPCI Marble & Granite — Detail
DetailFacade close-ups — book-matched marble veining and warm joint lighting studied across entry, louvre and threshold.
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