La Casita
A stacking system of marine-ply boxes, assembled with ratchet straps into a temporary storefront at Seven Sisters Market, designed to come apart again into seating
- Client
- Ward's Corner CBS
- Scope
- Modular marine-ply boxes, assembled with ratchet straps, reused as seating once the pop-up ended
- Design
- Unit 38
- Material
- Marine-grade (WBP) plywood, 18mm boxes, 6mm column backs
- Location
- Seven Sisters Market, London
- Completed
- June 2026
The brief
The storefront needed to go up quickly, come down quickly, and not be wasted once the pop-up ended. The answer was a kit of stacking marine-ply boxes, held together with ratchet straps rather than fixed joinery, so the whole front could be assembled and struck without specialist tools. Once the pop-up finished, the same boxes were designed to be reused as seating.
Working to the brief
Both the budget and the turnaround were tight, and the finish was kept simpler than on a permanent piece, agreed with Unit 38, the architect on the job, as the right trade-off for a temporary structure rather than a compromise nobody signed off on.