Ceiling for a Crater

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.

Type: Pavilion and performance stage

Location: Vilvoorde, Belgium

Surface: 81m²

For: Horst Art and Music

When: 2019

Team: Tomas Dirrix, Léa Alapini, Ada Finci Terseglav

Textile: Levtec

Structural engineering: Util

With many thanks to all volunteers involved

Photography: Olmo Peeters, Illias Teirlinck, Maxim Verbueken, Jeroen Verrecht

Published: METALOCUS, Glamcult, Resident Advisor, De Standaard