Bristol studio Re:Right Design has reprised its demountable Hayes Pavilion for this year's Glastonbury festival, cladding it in a biomaterial made from seaweed to demonstrate how sets can be built without plastic.
The pavilion is returning to the world's largest greenfield music festival for the second year running as part of its quest to explore how temporary event infrastructure could become more sustainable.
Following last year's focus on prefabricated mycelium insulation panels, the latest edition of the Hayes Pavilion spotlights a backyard-compostable bioplastic made from seaweed.
The Hayes Pavilion has returned for Glastonbury 2024
The fossil-free material, developed by biodesigner Leksi Kostur over several years, was cast, coloured, laser-cut and engraved in different ways to explore the material's creative potential and evoke the flora and fauna of tidal ecosystems. "Our goal with these installations is to start showing what's possible with these materials, practically and aesthetically," said Kostur, who founded Re:Right together with set design veteran Simon Carroll.
"We're pushing the boundaries in terms of size and scale," Carroll added.
Its interiors are clad with a bioplastic derived from seaweed
The aim is to find compostable materials that can rival the cheap, widely available plastics commonly used in set design, which live on in landfills for hundreds of years after they have fulfilled their purpose.
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