MOONSCREEN
This year we collaborated with @publichouse135 to design and build the @moon___screen cinema for @wakinglife.pt festival.
Oriented east to west, the design sits nestled in a ring of Portuguese cork oaks, native trees shrouded in mysticism and considered sacred in local folklore. A space of transitions, the visitor is guided between the trees and columns, through flowing fabrics guarded by suspended clay mouras - the spirits of folklore who appear on midsummer - and into a space of contemplation and reflection.
YEAR
2025
COLLABORATORS
Public House
Wakinglife
Moonscreen
BUILD TEAM
Joseph Hillary, Jake Stevenson Grimsberg, Luis Martin Gonzalez, Miranda Hill, Nadire Gökmen, Valentin Loeffler, James Hepper, Edie Parfitt, Joe Nicol, Joshua Brooks, Freya Bolton
Special thank you to Michelle Vosters
PHOTOGRAPHY
@niccola.be
After the timber frame was completed, we moved into prototyping and experimenting with local materials to create various types of shading. One shading panel involved the collecting of hundreds of waste canes, cutting them into nearly 2000 350mm pieces and threading them to create splayed shading. Another involved smashing canes to create flat segments which could be woven to form a substructure, which was later clad with local earth.
