Initiatives / Experiments / Visions

Electric Castle (Temporary pavilions and installations at the music festival „Electric Castle”)

Principal author

Silviu Aldea

Profession

Arhitect

Co-authors (team members)

Csenge Fülöp, Cătălin Iliescu, Arnold Knall, Marius Moga, Vlad Pop, Tamás Sisak, Roxana Susan, Ágnes Szörcsey

Architecture office

Atelier MASS

Collaborators (team members)

Vlad Afrasiabi, Karola Barabás, Ștefania Boca, Arina Butiu, Daniel Cocan, Raul Dateș, Malina Encian, Silvia Encian, Violeta Frișan, Nicu Gaja, Cristina Ilie, Ágota Kovács, Ernő Lénárt, Ștefania Marzac, Adelina Mesaros, Cezar Moldovan, Boglárka Molnár, Martha Moroșan, Andrei Mureșan, Verona Musteața, Alexandra Necula, Ștefania Pasca, Ioana Peter, Maier Petrica, Andrada Pinte, Dan Pintea, Andrei Pop, Cătălin Pop, Blanca Rus, Paul Rusu, Patricia Săbădășiu, Diana Tuhuț, Rareș Udeanu, Mădălina Udrea, George Ștefan Vaida, Robert Vasiluț, Cătălina Vaida

Project year

2016-2018

Location

Bonțida

Client

S.C. Festival Tickets Management S.R.L.

Budget

4500 €

Project description

Until so far, Electric Castle music festival in Bonțida, Romania, has set itself apart from the usual staging of a music festival. Combining striking visual elements, mass entertainment and a Gothic setting (the ruin of 15th-century Bánffy Castle) the event turned more into a complex sensorial and spatial experience, a celebration of contemporary art in its different forms: from music to architecture, design, and installation. The main challenge is to create easy-to-build, affordable and low-tech structures adapted to the large scale of the site. They convert the empty property of the Castle for a matter of 4 days into a realm of sound, white geometries, passage ways and visual safaris. The whole setting is an invitation to exploring several paths and different ways of perceiving the old Banffy estate. All interventions stand apart from the historical material, keeping in parallel and not in competition with it. In this sense the festival does not consume its site, rather activates it by a temporary (re)set into the light.

Text description of the author

Atelier MASS is an architectural studio based in Cluj (RO), established in March 2011. It was formed by four friends, former colleagues who shared the passion for projects that expand the boundaries of professional practice. Their design work seeks open collaborations with people from other fields to achieve better solutions in different architecture related areas. Their guideline is the common interest in researching the Romanian urban environment and identifying small scale ways to improve it.

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