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FACADE OF SHARED RHYTHMS

type: stage design
cruilla festival 2026

Facade of Shared Rhythm brings together fragments of homes from around the world to form a collective urban facade around the stage. Windows embedded within these architectural pieces reveal silhouettes dancing in rhythm with the music, transforming familiar domestic scenes into a shared celebration. Through light and movement, the stage becomes a living city where many homes connect in one communal moment.

The recessed window openings incorporate small outdoor LED screens that display high-contrast silhouettes of people dancing, creating the impression of life unfolding inside the facades. The content is designed as simple, looped animations so that each window behaves like a small “room” reacting to the music. These screens can be synchronized with the stage show using standard show-control systems (such as timecode or MIDI triggers). In parallel, the interior window boxes include LED lighting that follows the same color palette as the stage lighting design. At key musical moments the lights can briefly pulse or flicker in sync with the music, allowing the facades to subtly participate in the rhythm of the performance while remaining secondary to the main stage visuals.

The stage sponsor NUSSLI is integrated into the architectural composition rather than treated as an external logo. The name appears within a brick facade fragment, becoming part of the urban collage that frames the stage. Positioned as one of the “buildings” within the structure, the sign reads as a shared landmark within the temporary city of facades, subtly suggesting NUSSLI as the element that brings these fragments together.

Homes around the world become one, moving to the same beat.

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