Structure observe Minimal Studio has unveiled Plastic Field, a grocery store in Mallorca with a minimalist exposed-concrete inside and a ceiling of 1,200 plastic crates.
The absolutely functioning retailer, positioned in Mallorca’s Port of Pollensa, was conceived by the studio as a “uncooked concrete envelope”.
“We decreased the construction to its essence, eradicating all earlier finishes and exposing its uncooked bones,” Minimal Studio founder Juan David MartÃnez Jofre informed Dezeen.
“The area was redefined by gentle, reflection, and rhythm, changing conventional aisles with visible sequences that information the customer like an exhibition route,” Jofre continued. “The transformation stripped away each hint of business language – leaving solely structure, materials, and lightweight to inform the story.”
Minimal Studio additionally used concrete contained in the 193-square-metre retailer, leaving partitions and ceilings uncovered and creating concrete tables and shelving.
“Concrete embodies management and reality,” Jofre stated. “It anchors the area emotionally and visually, counterbalancing the volatility of plastic and the ephemerality of packaging.”
The studio complemented the uncovered concrete with a variety of different industrial supplies.
“Alongside uncovered concrete, we used chrome steel, translucent polycarbonate, and recycled plastic panels,” Jofre stated.
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“Every materials was chosen for its capacity to distort gentle and dissolve bodily boundaries,” he added.
“Collectively, they assemble an immersive ambiance – reflective, industrial, and ethereal directly. The result’s a hybrid setting: heavy in construction, but gentle in notion.”
Minimal Studio used 1,200 recycled plastic crates to create a sculptural ceiling set up contained in the Plastic Field. In addition to forming an intriguing inside element, the crates are sensible – they home LED lighting, air flow methods and rainwater assortment units.
“We sourced the crates from native meals distribution networks – giving new life to discarded industrial components,” Jofre defined.
“As soon as suspended and illuminated, they create a floating grid of reflections and shadow, a luminous membrane that filters gentle like a residing sculpture.”
The colors within the area are impartial and muted, with a palette of gray, beige and pale sage inexperienced hues forming a discrete background to the colorful packaging of the grocery store items.
“Plastic Field was conceived as a brutalist artwork gallery disguised as a grocery store – an area the place consumption, reflection, and materials extra converge,” Jofre stated.
“The idea transforms a useful program into an set up: the packaging turns into the body, the product turns into the paintings, and lightweight turns into the curator.”
Plastic Field has elicited a constructive response from customers, Jofre stated.
“The area triggers curiosity, introspection, and calm, far faraway from the standard retail setting,” he concluded.
Different creatively designed supermarkets on Dezeen embody a pastel-hued Stockholm retailer and a Dutch postwar grocery store with two towers.
The pictures is by Leonardo Cóndor.
