Prata Interiorismo · 2026
Plastic Box Función primaria: Supermercado
- A' Design Award de Prata 2026 in Interiorismo
- CLIENT: Minimal Studio Projects SL
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 15,187
- Verification code 27EF453BA3 · Verify this award
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About Plastic Box Función primaria: Supermercado
Texto do libro: O proxecto é un exemplo de brutalismo minimalista. O espazo redefine a experiencia de compra a través dunha estética atrevida e unha funcionalidade innovadora. Concibido como unha cuncha de formigón con liñas rectas e volumes xeométricos, transmite unha sensación de forza e permanencia. O elemento máis distintivo é o teito, composto por máis de mil caixas de plástico recicladas dispostas dun xeito modular e meticulosamente aliñado.
About the A' Design Award de Prata
Plastic Box Función primaria: Supermercado gañou o A' Design Award de Prata, un recoñecemento enormemente prestixioso outorgado a deseños de gama alta, fermosos e impresionantes. Os gañadores Prata son obras tremendamente brillantes e sumamente creativas que ilustran a pericia, o talento e a agudeza sobresaíntes dos seus deseñadores. Espérase que Plastic Box Función primaria: Supermercado sexa unha obra marabillosa, escaparate de oficio, notablemente profesional e profundamente innovadora. Este deseño gañador do A' Design Award de Prata é unha invención moi notable e admirada que beneficia e fai avanzar os límites da arte, a ciencia, o deseño e a tecnoloxía. Plastic Box Función primaria: Supermercado é unha creación moi envexada que esperta desexos, achega sentimentos positivos e prende asombro e marabilla.
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- 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.
- Image Credits
- Fotógrafo / Leonardo Cóndor
