●Festival stage · Marvel Stadium, VIC · 2018

Paradigm Stage

Standing 7m high and 16m wide, the facade is a commanding vertical landscape built to hold attention from far away as readily as up close. Its multi-faceted, undulating extrusions are picked out by the light leaking between each layer, so a range of moods and textures could be conjured instantly through back-casting floodlights and front-projection mapping. Over 150 square metres of plywood were individually CNC-routed and jigsaw-puzzled together to form the contoured surface. The facade was designed and built by alterplace for Paradigm 2018 at Marvel Stadium, Melbourne.

Client: Paradigm
Scope: Concept DesignTechnical DesignBuild Management
Collaborators: Projection Mapping — Deltaprocess

Two towering layered face sculptures meeting above the DJ across the stage, lit green and blue over an arena crowd — 01

Two dancers framed by the layered plywood face contours, the stage glowing white from within — 02

Beams raking over the arena crowd toward the twin projection-mapped head profiles — 03

The facing head profiles washed in pink and green projection, crowd silhouetted below — 04

Searchlights crossing above the contoured heads, light tracing every stacked layer — 05

Close view of the layered contours curving overhead, edges catching green and magenta projection — 06

Lasers in purple, green and amber converging over the dance floor toward the twin faces — 07

The heads burning amber through haze, performers silhouetted in the gap between them — 08

Wide view of the arena — inverted fabric cones and the V-shaped truss hanging over the crowd — 09

Blue and crimson lasers streaming past the contour-lit faces above the crowd — 11

Looking up between the two profiles, green cellular projection crawling across every layer — 12

One head green, one purple — the DJs playing in the void between the giant faces — 13