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Reclaimed Greenhouse Transformed into Festival Light Installation

Design studio Kren. has repurposed a greenhouse structure into 'Shed,' an inhabitable light installation for the Loud Places music festival in the UK. The project highlights the transformable potential of everyday objects.

Shed serves as both a beacon and an intimate gathering space, functioning as a place to congregate during the day and an illuminated shelter at night. The installation utilizes a reclaimed greenhouse frame, exploring its basic structure rather than its thermal properties.

Referencing Derek Jarman's greenhouse, the design creates a focal point and a space-within-a-space, offering shelter in the festival's meadow. The removal of the glass envelope emphasizes the rudimentary structure.

The adaptation is presented as an optimistic approach to resource austerity, reflecting the cross-disciplinary studio's ethos. Modified industrial lights are suspended within the frame, and translucent TPU screens become a glowing envelope at night.

The lights, hung below the roof ridge, create silhouettes on the walls when the space is occupied after dark, while projecting light outwards. PVC curtains, traditionally used in industrial cooling systems, demarcate the entrance.

The materiality of the installation references the greenhouse's agricultural heritage and the DIY nature of music festivals and club culture. The yellow-coated aluminum frame blends with the warm light as night falls.

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