Architecture studio Piovenefabi has created The Ring stage using repurposed steel beams for the 10th edition of Horst Arts and Music festival in Brussels.
Named Ring, the stage is the latest in a series of installation that have been designed to be adapted for public re-use added after the festival, which takes place in Asiat Park ? a former military site in the Vilvoorde neighbourhood.
Architecture studio Piovenefabi designed the mainstage for Horst Arts and Music festival
"The ambition was to leave something behind with a positive impact, rather than the often negative impact a festival has," Horst co-founder Mattias Staelens told Dezeen.
"We want to work with temporary architecture in a sustainable way by reusing materials, but also repurposing music stages for different functions and communities after." The Ring is an eight-metre-high decagonal structure made of steel beams
Designed as this year's main stage, the eight-metre-high decagonal structure comprised of yellow-painted steel beams sourced from a deconstructed on-site structure.
Informed by circular design techniques, Piovenefabi intends for the structure to be repurposed as a multi-use sports and recreation area after the festival.
Steel beams were sourced from a dismantled on-site structure
"The project salvaged the entirety of the structural elements from an existing structure and recomposed them into a new form," Piovenefabi co-founder Ambra Fabi told Dezeen.
"The steel bea...