Between the Earth and Sky Mirrored Pavilion, Sussex Timber Structure, English Architecture, Photos
Between the Earth and Sky Pavilion in Sussex
15 Sep 2021
Design: The Shack Collective
Location: Sussex, Southern England, UK

Between the Earth and Sky Mirrored Pavilion
Black women-led design collective completes self-build kaleidoscopic pavilion for independent UK music festival
The Shack Collective has completed a geometric tesselating mirrored pavilion, Between the Earth and Sky, for independent UK arts festival, Brainchild.

The Collective is currently running a fundraising campaign to cover the costs of the self-build project, opening a dialogue about the lack of arts funding for community projects, representation of, and compensation for young diverse designers in the architectural and arts professions.
The Shack Collective is a Black women-led group of designers working across arts, architecture and eco design totaling seven members; Seyi Adelekun, Shanice Abbey, Lauren Rechere, Fussilat Ibrahim, Rosie Murphy, Hannah Burrough, and Christopher Bradley. The group formed in March 2021 in response to Brainchild Festival?s open-call competition to design the festival?s DJ stage, which they won in May.
Rising 3.5 metres, Between the Earth and Sky is a demountable origami-like structure that consists of a lightweight timber space frame, made with three interconnected arches clad in tesselating angled acrylic mirrors.

The pavilion is rooted in the intimacy between people an...