Plastic Box Hauptfunktion: Supermarkt by Juan David Martínez

Plastic Box Hauptfunktion: Supermarkt by Juan David Martínez is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 A' Design Award in Silber in Innenraumdesign Competition Category.

SilberInnenraum· 2026

Plastic Box Hauptfunktion: Supermarkt

by Juan David Martínez

Client: Minimal Studio Projects SL

A' Design Award in Silber Winner in Innenraum Category

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The Design

About Plastic Box Hauptfunktion: Supermarkt

Das Projekt ist ein Beispiel für minimalistischen Brutalismus. Der Raum definiert das Einkaufserlebnis durch eine kühne Ästhetik und innovative Funktionalität neu. Konzipiert als Betonhülle mit geraden Linien und geometrischen Volumen, vermittelt es ein Gefühl von Stärke und Beständigkeit. Das markanteste Element ist die Decke, die aus mehr als tausend recycelten Kunststoffkisten besteht, die modular und sorgfältig ausgerichtet angeordnet sind.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Silber

Plastic Box Hauptfunktion: Supermarkt ist Gewinner des A' Design Award in Silber, einer enorm prestigeträchtigen Anerkennung für erstklassige, großartige und beeindruckende Spitzendesigns. Silber-Gewinner sind ungemein brillante und äußerst kreative Werke, die die herausragende Expertise, das Talent und den Scharfsinn ihrer Designer veranschaulichen. Von Plastic Box Hauptfunktion: Supermarkt wird erwartet, dass es ein wunderbares Vorzeigewerk ist, das bemerkenswert professionell und zutiefst innovativ ist. Dieses mit dem A' Design Award in Silber prämierte Design ist eine höchst bemerkenswerte, bewunderte Erfindung, die den Grenzen von Kunst, Wissenschaft, Design und Technologie zugutekommt und sie voranbringt. Plastic Box Hauptfunktion: Supermarkt ist eine vielbeneidete Schöpfung, die Wünsche weckt, positive Gefühle vermittelt und Staunen und Verwunderung entfacht.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Plastic Box is a minimalist brutalist project that transforms the shopping experience through a bold aesthetic and innovative functionality. Conceived as a concrete envelope with clean lines, it conveys strength and permanence. Its key element is a ceiling made of more than a thousand recycled plastic crates that filter light and integrate lighting, ventilation, and rainwater systems. Inside, steel and concrete reinforce a sober commercial language that redefines materials and their uses.
Dimensions & Packaging: The lighting was conceived in an indirect and highly controlled manner. Light passes through and reflects off the system of 1,200 reused plastic crates in the ceiling, creating diffuse illumination that eliminates the typical glare found in supermarkets. In this way, light does not merely illuminate the space; it builds atmosphere and reinforces its scenographic character, creating a connection between the space and the shadows it generates.
Tags: supermarket, Plastic Box, plastic, brutalism
Production Technology: The project is defined by a reduced and honest material palette: concrete, steel, and reused plastic. Concrete provides brutality and neutrality; steel resolves the furniture with industrial precision; and plastic, usually hidden, becomes the architectural protagonist through the reuse of more than 1,200 crates. The ceiling was the greatest technical challenge, developed without precedents at this scale and requiring extensive prototyping, testing, and on site adjustments to assemble more than 1,200 reused elements with absolute precision.
Design Challenge: The main objective was to transform an everyday, functional space into an architectural experience. The client required a fully operational and efficient supermarket with clear circulation, while also seeking a space with its own identity recognizable and memorable. The program was simple: a sales area, storage, fluid circulation, and a powerful image that breaks with convention.
Research: The space was already operating as a supermarket, but it was in a completely neutral state, lacking architectural character, with standard solutions and a flat spatial reading. It was a generic container with no spatial value, which allowed us to intervene with complete freedom, starting from an almost blank slate.
Inspiration: The project is inspired by the idea of turning a space of consumption into an almost ritual, artistic experience. A brutalist and reduced language is used, where a single gesture defines the entire identity. This concept takes shape in the ceiling, made from over 1200 reused plastic crates, creating a recognizable and hypnotic atmosphere. The space becomes a box within a box, where function and symbolism coexist.
Project Duration: Completed in 2024 in Port d Alcúdia, Mallorca.
Team Members: Joan David Martínez Jofre
Image Credits: Fotógrafo / Leonardo Cóndor