The design for a performance pavilion for the arts and music festival of Horst takes inspiration from the ancient architecture of festivals, celebrations and large rituals. A single gesture of a large floating roof transforms a concrete square cut in the terrain as found to a dance floor and central stage. The low hanging and voluminous presence of the architecture above the visitors manifests reminiscent of the history of the place as a former military site and as a rapprochement of two landscape motifs. Working from an economy of means with various ways of a holding up, a minimum of material and air-pressure as a constructive principle the structure plays with its seemingly contradictory appearance of both thinness and thickness, weightlessness and an image of great weightiness.

Published: METALOCUS, Glamcult, Resident Advisor, De Standaard

Team: Tomas Dirrix, Léa Alapini, Ada Finci Terseglav

With: Olmo Peeters (photography), Illias Teirlinck (photography), Maxim Verbueken (photography), Jeroen Verrecht (photography), Levtec (textile), Util (Structural engineering), With many thanks to all volunteers involved