location
realengo . rio de janeiro . brazil
project/work
2024
warehouse area
9,000 m2
party area
5,000m2
architecture, scenography and lighting
messina | rivas
helena meirelles
Matheus Perelmutter
promoters
fresh oysters party
Nina de Almeida
leticia cury
marco gusmao
production
isabella franceschini
alexander lomaski
Ana Carolina Godoy
gabriela teixeira
stage technician
ricardo
william zarella
rental
ark
structure
sp events
recon
light ember
photos
lamp
fresh oysters
The architectural and lighting design project for the Ostras Frescas party is a temporary intervention in a warehouse of an old metalworking factory from the 1960s, with 9,000m2 of free space and 16m of ceiling height. Since the space originally had a total capacity for 6,000 people, while the party was designed for 2,500, the challenge of the project was to ask how to build the experience of proximity and intimacy of the dance floor in a space that suggested dispersion?
The deadlines for a short-term project require precision in choosing the construction methods. Since there was only one month to design and assemble the party, we chose to work with catalogs of rental materials such as boxtruss structures, reflective closing panels, modular platforms and fabric rolls.
The project experience begins at the entrance. We sought to reduce the scale of the warehouse by means of a 40.00 m long tunnel covered in black fabric, establishing a ceiling height of 2.20 m, contrasting with the lighting focused on the floor. At the end of this entrance path, a kind of internal cocoon appears in contrast, manifested by the intervention's central light fixture: a lamp formed by a large curved fabric measuring 120.00 m in perimeter and 5 m in height, suspended in the space by a ring of boxtrusses that also serves as support for the light, laser and smoke equipment. The combination of these three elements acting simultaneously creates a new virtual roof that helps to reduce the scale of the space and the ceiling height within this area, which is where the dance floor is formed. Service and support areas, such as bars, bathrooms, rest areas and technical corridors, are positioned to the sides and outside of the lamp, keeping them with low lighting and in contrast with the central element.
For a neutral space, we proposed a unique experience. For a cold area, warmth. For straight lines, curves. For a vacant warehouse, a dance floor, a temporary refuge.