Tube Tank TRIWA pop-up shop by Mode:lina Architekci
Polish studio Mode:lina Architekci built a tank out of cardboard tubes to make this pop-up shop for Swedish watch brand TRIWA (+ slideshow).
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Located in Poznań Plaza shopping mall in the city of Poznań, Poland, the Tube Tank was designed by Mode:lina Architekci to be low-cost and quick to construct.
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The tank is built from over 900 cardboard tubes and held together with brightly coloured ratchet straps.
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The architects settled on the material first and then discovered that a tank shape would be a simple and secure way to piece the cardboard together.
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"When we did some experiments with strapping the tubes with ratchet straps, the most stable construction looked like a caterpillar tread – we decided to follow this look," architect Jerzy Woźniak told Dezeen.
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The display cabinets for the posters and watches are made from chunky chipboard panels.
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TRIWA sales assistants stand inside the tank to sell watches to passing customers.
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Cardboard tubes have popped up in a few projects on Dezeen, including an installation in a London department store by Nicholas Grimshaw's studio and a Japanese boutique made of hanging cardboard tubes.
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Previous projects by Mode:lina we've featured include a stark police station interior and a London soundscape played through tangled pipes, which we filmed as part of our Dezeen Platform micro-exhibition.
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Photographs are by Mode:lina Architekci.
Here's some more information from the architects:
Once again mode:lina accepted a challenge, to create a temporary store for Swedish watch brand TRIWA. Goals, similar to previous year, were:
Use of renewable materials - Low cost
Speed of constructing
But above all, to further increase global brand awareness.
Previous cooperation between the two exceeded by far client’s expectations – pictures of the store were published around the globe, both online and offline.
Once more, designers decided to use a very well known raw material – paperboard. Only this time it was rolled into tubes. Over 900 of paper tubes, wrapped with ratchet-straps around cabinets built from raw OSB wood panels. That's how the Tube Tank was born. Meet Triwa Pop-Up store! See you at Poznań Plaza mall (Poland)!
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Project: Tube Tank – TRIWA Pop-Up store
Design: mode:lina architekci (Paweł Garus & Jerzy Woźniak)
Project team: Paweł Garus, Jerzy Woźniak, Kinga Kin
Realisation: November / Listopad 2012
Area: 10 m2