Papabubble Lucua

Square tubes piled up diagonally and cut along the outline of the shop area offer both shelves to put candy bins and walls to hang candy bags at the same time in this Papabubble shop in Osaka, designed by Yo Shimada architecture.

The Papabubble shop designed by Yo Shimada architecture is located near Osaka station and surrounded by various commercial buildings.

As the shop area is next to full-height windows, it is open to the stream of pedestrians from all directions.

Yo Shimada designed this shop inspired by the handmade process and the unique texture of candy melting in the mouth.

Square tubes made of punching metal are piled up diagonally and cut along the outline of the shop area. They offer both shelves to put candy bins and walls to hang candy bags at the same time. Punching metal was adopted to realize an easy hanging system and to represent the candy texture. One of the shop signs is made of rubber strings which are interwoven with a cross-stitch in the metal, this way taking the advantage of the punching metal.

Production of the tubes had been done in the factory and they have been assembled at the construction site. This method worked out well and resulted in a very limited construction period. The layer of colors and the moire pattern effect of punching metal give various expressions to the shop depending on the viewing direction.