Festival
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about festival
Project • By Eleftherios Nicolaou Architecture+ Studio • Pavilions
Mirage
Mirage stood at the entrance to the AFROBANANA Festival in Lefkara like a portal beckoning visitors to step beyond the everyday. At first glance, it appeared as a sleek, hexagonal corridor of mirrored surfaces, the angles carefully chosen to produce a disorienting yet captivating interplay of reflections. By night, battery-powered stage lights illuminated the panels from the outside, casting shifting patterns of light that intensified the illusion. Despite its otherworldly appearance, the installation was surprisingly straightforward in its construction: aluminum composite panels with a mirror finish were folded to create nearly seamless joints, supported by scaffolding that allowed for quick assembly without wasting material. The dimension... More
Project • By Cheng Tsung FENG • Sculptures
Reading, a bridge (for Eslite)
Taiwanese artist Cheng Tsung FENG always focuses on traditional handcrafted culture. For the large-scale installation art for Eslite Bookstore 30th Anniversary, his subject is “Chinese Stitched Binding”, which is a kind of book binding method with a long history.
When the idea becomes text, the text falls on the paper, the paper is bundled through the rope, and it finally assembles together as a book. FENG transforms this binding craft from a plane into a three-dimensional unit like a tile (more than 1500 pieces), then he combines the store's escalator to create a transitional space just like a bridge and a tunnel.
The movement of the escalator is like a book is turning pages. When people set foot on it and the... More
Project • By Cheng Tsung FENG • Sculptures
Fish Trap House IV
Artist Cheng Tsung FENG applies Taiwanese traditional fish traps as the theme of artwork. Invited hundreds of local in Taichung to workshops to learn weaving the art craft of the fish trap. With them hundreds of fish trap was made and hang bamboo sign with their wishes on it. People surround hand by hand unite together. Rewrite the precious art craft which is going to vanish into our memory and body.
Recently, Cheng Tsung FENG was invited to create a lantern in the most fabulous event - Taiwan Lantern Festival. He began a huge collective work plan for this two-week celebration.
During the processing, FENG and his partners drove a truck and went to four farmers' associations in the festival’s location, Taichung. He fo... More
Project • By NOA • Visitor Center
IDM Box
noa* was commissioned by IDM Alto Adige to develop the concept for a new trade fair stand to represent the soul of the South Tyrolean region for the "Berlin Travel Festival".
The pavilion aims to convey the idea of authenticity, quality, nature, sustainability, tradition and innovation: essential points for today's travelers and for modern tourism.
A modular pavilion, quick to assemble and dissemble, in order to easily change location, that carries its stories everywhere and allows guests to get a taste of what South Tyrol is like. Culinary and artisanal traditions, alpine landscapes, sports, local companies, brands, technological developments, are some of the themes analyzed and staged in the pavilion.
The... More
Project • By Noor Architects • Commercial Landscape
Tavrida-ART
In the summer of 2019, a large-scale youth festival "Tavrida-Art" was held in Crimea. The event, which was attended by 92 thousand people in three days, was conducted on the highest level. Guests and participants of “Tavrida-Art” even gave it unofficial name – “Russian Burning Man”. The Moscow architecture Bureau Noor Architects was engaged in developing the festival infrastructure.
The selection of the territory for festival of such level is very responsible business. The location should impress people just by its appearance. Kapsel Bay is such a place. It is located near the Meganom Cape, protected from the winds and beautiful at any time of the day. Climate and time have turned this bay into rea... More
Project • By Hello Wood • Universities
Carnival
Unleashing the superpower of the architect
Hello Wood celebrated its 10th Summer School and Festival with ‘new tribe’ of international architects and 20 projects
The Hello Wood Summer School and Festival has expanded over the years to build up a lot of recognition internationally within the architecture community, with previous years having more than 1000 participants from across 70 countries and over 50 universities take part in Hello Wood’s educational event. By looking to the future and adopting an attitude of rebirth, a large part of the tenth anniversary of the festival was about criticism of the stereotypical role of the architect - one that is constrained by expectations and deadlines - while searching for the true superpower of... More
Project • By Gensler • Exhibitions
Blind Trust
Gensler Seattle unveiled ‘Blind Trust’, an interactive exhibit, at the 2018 Seattle Design in Public Festival. Blind Trust challenges visitors to use touch, rather than sight, as their primary means of navigation and interaction with the installation. Visitors move through three concentric, rectangular extrusions formed by rope stretched vertically between frames. While these tightly knit rope ‘walls’ appear impenetrable and visually homogenous, many of the ropes are actually elastic, allowing a participant to create an opening. In order to pass through each successive layer, visitors use their sense of touch to find possible paths. In the center of the rope forest is a clearing, open to the sky. This is intended as a moment of reflection f... More
Project • By PleasantHouse Design • Exhibition Centres
2018 GameOn Exhibition and Festival in Shenzhen
We always feel excited to spread out as people asked which games(s) memorized your childhood with little folks. Super Mario Bros, Contra, the King of Fighters 97…“GameOn Blooming” China Tour 2018, as the world’s first immersive experience exhibition based-on video games, has collected over 150 classic games and countless unforgettable memories for people in thirties, forties, and fifties. The exhibition organized jointly by Blooming Invest and Barbican Center London has ended now. Started from the concept of video games, the architecture was enveloped in a colorful pallet of mapping plains with posters to simulate the effect in past pixelated video games. The design conceived by PleasantHouse Design and INTACT Studio intentionally blends in... More
Project • By C&W Design + Build • Offices
ID
ID&T, a worldwide authority on dance festivals and electronic music, moved into new offices in the iconic A’DAM Tower on the banks of the River IJ in Amsterdam. The new offices had to be an interpretation of a festival site, but one that had to be built to last: less wild, but clearly identifiable and with a lot of variation. DZAP designed and built an office with an amazing variety between the spaces, where the employees can work, have lunch, or just enjoy the amazing view, either in groups or all by themselves. More
Project • By Brigada • Exhibitions
Adris Lawn Grow
As for the previous years, Brigada was in charge of Adris promotion during the Weekend Media Festival in Rovinj. The brief was to transform ideas and messages from Adris recent annual report to a spatial intervention in the former Tobacco Factory.
The idea of growth, through identification and nurturing of the potential was transformed by the living, organic installation with growing grass. Unlike the previous Adris promotional stands at the WMF in Rovinj, where the pavilion was primarily a visual experience, this time focus was on the phenomenon of growth.
A natural ambient has been created, opposed to an unusual form around which festival visitors stopped, used it to relax, talk, work on their computers or just go through Adris c... More
Project • By Atelier Barda architecture • Exhibitions
Sacré Potager
14th and 15th edition of the International Garden Festival, Grand-Métis, Québec.
« The installation offers and leads the visitor into a poetic fiction of the «sacred» side of garden and culinary heritage. »
Sacré potager is an installation exhibited at the 14th and 15th and 16th edition of the International Garden Festival, held in Grand-Métis, Québec in 2013, 2014 and 2016. In 2015, the installation was exposed at Musée des beaux-arts de Québec.
Sacré Potager was chosen by the jury for this international competition from among the 290 proposals submitted by more than 700 designers from 31 countries. Sacré Potager (literally, the sacred vegetable garden) evokes the sacred nature of plants and their special place in our world. For m... More