SPAR Supermarket, Budapest, MOM Park

Architetcs: Linda Erdélyi, András Dobos, Balázs Korényi, Virág Anna Gáspár
Text: Rózsa Csavarga
Photos: Zsolt Batár

The shop of SPAR housed in the basement of MOM Park attracts attention with its style. Designers created transparent interiors furnished with systems of counters with island-like design structured with colours of an economical palette and enhanced lights, whilst the systematic use of materials and white colour dynamics guarantee the visual integrity of the atmosphere.
The space of the supermarket is divided into three well-separated parts. The most spectacular experience of space is offered to the customers right opposite the entrance: a transparent light and versatile landscape of commodities. View is not limited here by tall shelves: vegetables, meat, cheese, dairy products and cold cuts are displayed on counter-islands reching our waist-height. The conventional part of the supermarket with tall shelves in the centre is connected to the section offering wines and spirits and deep-frozen food with a ribbed suspended ceiling of integral design. Untreated wooden ribs have double functions here as from storing they grow into a suspended ceiling whilst also guiding our eyes over to the rows of shelves. This special kind of designers’ approach is well worth attention as it offers an exemplary way of rephrasing a type of an ordinary space we rarely pay attention to and thus translating it from insignificant into characteristic.

Interior design: Linda Erdélyi, András Dobos, Balázs Korényi, Virág Anna Gáspár – LAB5 architects
Fellow designers: András Debreczeni, Zoltán Szegedi, Tamás Tóth, Zoltán Vámos
Signage: Zsuzsi Tolnai, Rita Halasi
Technical expert, plans for background zone: László Filepkó – MŰÉP Építőmérnöki Kft.
Client: SPAR Magyarország Kereskedelmi Kft
Main contractor: EMEL Kft
Furniture: Enter Team, Solymosi, Art-Innova, Hi-Macs, Macsaly Kitchen Manufacture, Amos Design
Lights: Solinfo, Zumtobel, Enter Team
Floors: Porcelaingres
Shop interiors: Hauser, Umdasch