The Hay Festival
Client:
The Hay Festival
Year of Completion:
2006
The Famous Book Festival in Hay-on-Wye is one of the high lights of the calendar in literary cirlces and was an interesting project for the Interiors Depratment at Architen Landrell.
Started in 1988 by a small group of local people, the festival now focuses on participation and includes a number of workshops and courses led by the founders, Norman and Peter Florence.
Theatre is also important within the festval, and it was in this area where the festival planners needed Architen Landrell's help. Stage designrs approached the company to design, manufacture and build temporary, demountable, free-standing, three-dimensional screens as centrepieces and backdrops for the main and secondary stages at the Hay-on-Wye summer arts festival.
A series of lightweight frames were developed, clad in a fire-rated stretch fabric that was easily applied and demounted as required. The frames were designed to introduce three-dimensional shape and depth to the screens so that applied lighting adds volume to the structures. Each structure can be disassembled easily for storage between events, and the fabric is machine washable and self-tensioning, making it as easy to erect and maintain as possible!
