Argento Interni · 2026
Plastic Box Funzione primaria: Supermercato
- A' Design Award d'Argento 2026 in Interni
- 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 Funzione primaria: Supermercato
Testo del libro: Il progetto è un esempio di brutalismo minimalista. Lo spazio ridefinisce l'esperienza di acquisto attraverso un'estetica audace e una funzionalità innovativa. Concepito come un guscio di cemento con linee rette e volumi geometrici, trasmette un senso di forza e permanenza. L'elemento più distintivo è il soffitto, composto da oltre mille cassette di plastica riciclata disposte in modo modulare e meticolosamente allineato.
About the A' Design Award d'Argento
Plastic Box Funzione primaria: Supermercato ha vinto l'A' Design Award d'Argento, un riconoscimento enormemente prestigioso conferito a design di fascia alta, splendidi e impressionanti. I vincitori d'Argento sono opere tremendamente brillanti ed estremamente creative che illustrano l'eccezionale competenza, il talento e l'acume dei loro designer. Ci si aspetta che Plastic Box Funzione primaria: Supermercato sia un'opera meravigliosa, una vetrina di eccellenza, notevolmente professionale e profondamente innovativa. Questo design vincitore dell'A' Design Award d'Argento è un'invenzione molto notevole e ammirata che giova ai confini dell'arte, della scienza, del design e della tecnologia e li fa avanzare. Plastic Box Funzione primaria: Supermercato è una creazione molto invidiata che evoca desideri, porta sentimenti positivi e accende meraviglia e stupore.
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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
