For the past few years, Lunar has created a pop-up club in the middle of Mechelen, in the old Smatch supermarket complex during the Maanrock festival. This year, they wanted a different approach: a club experience shaped through scenography.

Together with a team, we developed a concept based on a drop of water falling. At the center is the DJ booth in a 360° set-up, while the waves of the crowd and the sound shape the room. This takes form in three layers of curtains: small ones around the booth for the inner circle, then curtains reaching halfway down the body to create the main danceroom inside a larger space, and finally curtains running from ceiling to floor creating an outer layer. With lighting from above and around the curtains, the space became a layered club experience. The crowd has to move past each barrier, which forces people to come together connect.

We also created a second room, with tubes of light running above the crowd’s heads, and a chill space with soft textures and pieces of cloth.

Big thanks to the whole team for building and conceptualizing this space: Jolijn De Meyer, Jade Pollers, Nomy, Tom Boonen and Sammy Claes.