For SAGA Space Architects, designing for extreme environments is an everyday task. The studio has spent years exploring how architecture can adapt to the extreme environments while still closely working with projects on Earth. The latest project, however, has ventured into retail.
Vollebak Spaceshop, designed and built by SAGA, is a 1,000-kilogram spacecraft-inspired pop-up that reimagines the idea of a shopping experience. Created in collaboration with Vollebak, the experimental clothing brand known for garments inspired by space and survival, and Bang & Olufsen, Denmark’s century-old luxury audio brand, the Spaceshop merges engineering, design, and architecture into a single mobile structure.
The Spaceshop’s carbon and stainless-steel frame is wrapped in anodized aluminium panels, imitating the wear and look of an authentic spacecraft. The panels were anodized at Bang & Olufsen's headquarters in Struer, Denmark. Each component was designed, fabricated, and assembled in-house at SAGA’s Copenhagen workshop.
Inside the Spaceshop is lit with LEDs that cast light on the newly launched Vollebak anodized jacket and other items from their clothing lines.
“This kind of project comes around maybe only once in a career - the chance to think through a future in which intergalactic deliveries between Earth, the Moon and Mars are a part of everyday reality - no different to how we think about getting the things we buy delivered to our door today. Just on an interplanetary scale. - Sebastian Aristotelis, Co-Founder and Lead Architect at SAGA Space Architects
Inside the pop-up, sound becomes a contributing element of authenticity of old sci-fi movies. Working with Bang & Olufsen, SAGA integrated BeoLab 5 and BeoSound 2 speakers directly into the structure, capable of delivering up to 120 decibels, louder than a sonic boom.
Vollebak Spaceshop debuted in Copenhagen in June 2025, marking its first landing on Earth. Where many pop-ups last a few weeks, this one seeks a longer journey and has embarked on a world tour stopping in the major cities.
