Shed reworks A Reclaimed Greenhouse into a Gathering Space

Created by Kren., a London/Vienna-based design studio, Shed is a bespoke installation for independent music festival Loud Places, set a couple of hours outside of London. Shed refers to its domestic origins and the light it sheds on the rest of the festival, acting as both a beacon and an intimate space to congregate. As an inhabitable light installation, it functions as a place to gather around throughout the day, and within at night. The yellow frame and diffuse screens are foregrounds and backgrounds that blur and then interchange as the sun sets, light emanating consistently. Working with a reclaimed greenhouse structure, the adapted system explores a key interest of the studio; the transformable potential of the everyday object.

Shed stands in the festival’s meadow area | all images ©Kren.

Kren. turns a Greenhouse Frame into an Illuminated Shelter

Taking an optimistic stance on working with what we have, the adaptation functions as a creative challenge in the face of resource austerity, emblematic of the ethos of the cross-disciplinary design studio. Referencing Derek Jarman’s greenhouse bed in his 1980s Bankside loft, Shed explores the archetype as a place of intimacy. Traditionally associated with the growing of plants, here the greenhouse’s purpose is to gather and enclose. Similar to Jarman’s domestic intervention, it creates both a focal point and a space-within-a-space, offering shelter within the expanse of the meadow. By removing the thermal envelope of the glass, the work looks at the greenhouse for its rudimentary yet effective creation of a basic structure rather than capitalizing on its thermal qualities.

the adaptation of the greenhouse structure explores the transformable potential of the everyday object

Light and Reclaimed Materials Shape the Festival Shelter

The greenhouse acts as The Primitive Hut. Simultaneously, Shed is a light installation. Where the greenhouse frame provides the structure and the shelter, modified industrial lights hang within. Constantly glowing, as night falls, the translucent TPU becomes back-lit, turning the entire envelope into a diffuse screen. The lights divide the internal space, suspended just below seated eye-level along the roof ridge. This means that when the space is occupied at night, silhouettes appear to animate the walls whilst light is projected out towards the festival. In combination with the adapted aluminum frame and modified lights, PVC curtains (traditionally used in industrial cooling systems) demarcate the entry, hung by cable ties. This palette of materiality speaks to the agricultural heritage of the greenhouse whilst also referencing the innovation and DIY nature of music festivals and club culture.

the independent festival has a focus on experiential design

the installation acts as a space to gather around throughout the day, and within at night

warm light emanates consistently

the TPU becomes a glowing envelope

off-the-shelf fixings suspend the lights

suspended lights divide the internal space

the yellow-coated aluminum frame blends with the warm light as night falls

Shed refers to its domestic origins and the light it sheds on the rest of the festival

project info:

name: Shed
designer: Kren. | @kren_studio

design team: Ivy Aris, John Clayson, Andrei Dinu

event: Loud Places | @loudplacesfestival

location: London, UK

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edited by: Christina Vergopoulou | designboom

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