In collaboration with Solide Atelier, we developed a proposal for a pitfire for Horst Festival. The project focuses on reusing materials and creating a strong, thoughtful concept that fits the festival atmosphere, while remaining functional and relevant even when no festival is taking place.
Concept:
Like plato's allegory of the cavern in which shadows casted on the walls become a distorted reality for the prisoners, the fire pit design blurs the boundaries of reality and enhances what is by definition horst's experience: an alternate reality, shaped by rythms and bodies in space.
At night, the new reflective skin of the façade mirrors, distorts and blurs the silhouettes gathered around the fire, ready for rituals of the night. The wooden platform welcomes goers in search of rest, comfort and interactions.
Outside of festival hours, the platform transforms itself in a terrace allowing family BBQs and small performances to take place.
The reflective façade becomes a canvas for its green surrounding.
Blur is thus a square, defined and enhanced by a reflective skin, activated by the fire pit and its surrounding landscape. In constant mutation, blur reflects and plays with existing forms and shapes, giving another vision of our pragmatic world to passerby.
