YSL Pop Up
Pop Up Store
Madrid, Spain
2025

A temporary fiction emerges within the city’s everyday reality. The YSL Beauté Love Game pop-up is conceived as a spatial anchor for the Brand activation—designed to disrupt the routine and invite play. Its image is inmediate and iconic: a silver heart floating above the city, the central motif of the campaign, resting on a mirrored base that dissolves into the urban surroundings.

(Fig. 1) Envisioning a YSL urban landmark visible across the city.

The interior layout takes cues from the typology of historical casinos: a fluid sequence of spatial clusters organised around a central dome carved inside the heart.

(Fig. 2) Monte-Carlo Casino. Historical and cultural reference of game, leisure and pleasure.

This central space articulates the pavilion and hosts the roulette—both as a literal installation and as a spatial metaphor—setting the rhythm for the experience. Around it, activation zones unfold: a photo call, immersive installations, and moments of surprise that draw visitors into the YSL Beauty universe.

(Fig. 3) Schematic layout inspired by historic casinos
(Fig. 4) Kit of parts.

What appears monumental is, in fact, a choreography of lightweight components, engineered for rapid assembly and a seamless illusion crafted to showcase beauty. Here, a monument becomes a moment.

(Fig. 5) Visual archive documenting the assemblage process. Part I

Its logic of construction underscores ephemerality—swiftly assembled, intensely lived, then dismantled and stored. As a portable inventory, it surfaces across contexts while retaining its singular identity: everywhere and nowhere at once.

(Fig. 6) Visual archive documenting the assemblage process. Part II

While its exterior remains neutral and reflective —an abstract object dissolving into its surroundings—the interior shifts into a choreographed sequence of spaces, experiential and photogenic, designed for circulation.

(Fig. 7) Autonomy of the interior experience from the external expression.

Beneath this formal clarity, the underlying system speaks a technical language of efficiency and precision, articulated through prefabricated components.

(Fig. 8) X-Ray.
Floating Icon
Vending Machine
Heart Table
The Roulette
Make-up Station

The pavilion is activated through its elements: a sequence of spatial gestures that come alive in The Love Game, a gamified experience for a playful, unapologetic audience. The scenography is designed to circulate in digital media, extending the architecture beyond its physical limits and into social platforms.

(Fig. 9) Access tunnels functioning as transitional thresholds.

Engineered for transport within strict volumetric limits, the structure assembles in under two days, unfolding as a fleeting scenography. A travelling YSL anchor, momentarily emerging within the urban landscape.

A path flowing around the central grand space, where each environment unfolds its own identity, surprising visitors and setting the rhythm of the experience.

(Fig. 10) The central space articulating the project’s spatial flow.

Client
Yves Saint Laurent
Pelonio

Status
Built

Design Dates
2025 Concept Design
2025 Construction

Program
Retail
Pop-up Store

Team
ABC Mad x Equipo.exe
Alejandro Bustillo, Marta Benito, Toni Cañellas, Juan Ginés, Santiago Gómez, Javier Martínez, Silvia Muñoz

Collaborators
Baobab Productions
Teresa Martínez-Cubells
ACHA Arquitectura

Photography
Maru Serrano

Budget
450K €

Gross Area
110 m2