Block9 co-founders Gideon Berger and Steven Gallagher explain how they built the monolithic IICON stage at Glastonbury in this exclusive video shot by Dezeen at the famous music festival.
IICON is a vast sculptural stage and outdoor dance arena by London creative partnership Block9, which debuted at Glastonbury festival in Somerset, UK, last weekend.
The focal point of the structure is an enormous diagonally-tilted head with a cubical volume inset where its facial features should appear.
"It takes the form of a huge anonymous head with a very large cube intersecting the face" explained Block9 co-founder Gallagher in the movie. "The cube looks a bit like a visor."
IICON is a new stage and dance arena by London collective Block9. Photograph by Martin Perry After the sun set over Glastonbury each night, IICON came to life as DJs and musicians playing experimental electronic music took to its stage to entertain up to 15,000 revellers at once.
Looming over the stage is a huge LED screen that appears in place of the face's eyes.
The visuals on the screen were animated by Block9's technical team. These were complimented with projection mapping across the surface of the stage structure, as well as lighting design.
The IICON stage features a huge diagonally-tilted head. Photograph by Kamil Kustosz
"The whole thing is video-mapped, so we are able to animate the surface of the head," explained Gallagher.
As lasers and beams of light swung over the crowd, ...