Footwear store interior covered with stacked shoe boxes by Move Architects
A diagonally stacked arrangement of cardboard shoe boxes covers the back wall of this footwear store in Santiago, Chile, by Move Architects (+ slideshow).
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Move Architects designed 140 wooden supports with x-shaped profiles and inserted them into corresponding CNC-cut indentations on a large sheet of plywood mounted to the back wall of the shop.
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"The X shaped perforations and supports are generated from the store's name and logo, Bestias XX," said the architects, explaining that the solution was also the result of a need for lots of accessible storage in a small space.
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Shoe boxes can be stacked in a cascading arrangement between the supports and different patterns visible from outside the store can be created by leaving gaps or allowing some boxes to protrude.
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"Given the project's short construction time and its restricted budget we decided to minimise the use of conventional manual labour. Instead of what would traditionally be called 'building' a store, we decided to 'manufacture' the shop," the architects explained.
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Once the panels and supports had been created, the interior was assembled by the clients in 12 hours.
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The store also features a plywood counter and metal stools for customers to try on the range of shoes.
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Photography is by Cristobal Palma.
Here's a project description from Move Architects:
Bestias XX
Bestias XX can be summarized in two constrains: quantitative and qualitative. On one hand, 12 sqm has to hold at least 380 shoeboxes, 2 employees and 3 potential customers. On the other hand this quantitative restriction must be the image of the shop.
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As a result space restrictions, from the beginning of the design process the project was treated as combined need for storage space and a strong image. Therefore, we decided that the shoeboxes would define the shop image. To achieve this, 140 wooden X’s were built and inserted into six 18 mm plywood sheets over a perforated grill at 45 degree defined by the size of the box (33x13cm).
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The plywood sheets are hung from the store’s perimeter walls. Since the store is located in a corner of an urban shopping centre in Santiago, the boxes mounted on the X’s create an exterior façade. The X- shaped perforations and supports are generated from the store’s logo: BESTIAS XX.
![Bestias XX shop interior by Move Architects](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2014/01/Bestias-XX-shop-interior-by-Move-Architects_dezeen_11.gif)
Given the project’s short construction time and it restricted budget it was decided to minimise the use of conventional manual labour and instead of what would traditionally be called "building" a store we decided to "manufacture" the shop. The store was "mass-produced" mostly using two types of plywood sheets (one used to obtain the X’s) that were cut using a CNC router, thus reducing the cutting time to one day. The rest was only a matter of assembling and mounting.
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From the construction of the 6 panels that contains the perforations and the X’s, the structure was assembled by the clients themselves in 12 hours of uninterrupted work.
Project Name: BESTIAS XX
Architects: MoVe architects (Paula Velasco + Max Velasco + Alberto Moletto)
Construction: Max Velasco
Surface: 12 sqm
Budget: U$ 12.000
Location: Providencia, Santiago, Chile
Year: 2012