This project focuses on a chill-out zone with amenity (WC, Bars, Chill-Out, Massage Zone, Communal Fire) with recyclable materials. The system required a generic and demountable and moveable structure. Inspired by the Pyramid Stage we adopted a triangular modular system that would “click” together to form a scalable overall volume. A flatter type of X-frame formed a sandwich like top and bottom layer while triangulation and diamond like geometric chords form the central zone. Within this zone modular and “Green Toilet” systems are housed. Other areas include the bars while horizontal and shallow diagonal areas for chill out and massage surfaces.

The planar structure are formed of recycled timber that has been treated with a substrate of Zero-flame Fire Retardant Treatment, the appearance of the timber is virtually unchanged resulting in a truly organic and tactile finish that can endure the British weather and exposure to a naked flame.

The design is inspired by the festival which in turn inspired by the ethos of the hippie, counter-culture, and free festival movements. It retains vestiges of these traditions, such as the Green Fields area, which includes sections known as the Green Futures and Healing Fields. After the 1970s, the festival took place almost every year and grew in size. Michael Eavis hosted the first festival, then called Pilton Festival, after seeing an open-air Led Zeppelin concert at the 1970 Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music.

Glastonbury Festival was held intermittently from 1970 until 1981; since then, it has been held every year, except for “fallow years” taken mostly at five year intervals, intended to give the land, local population, and organisers a break. The result of this festival is a habitable space that appears to have been “born” out the rock face as a geological transformation.