The Solar Festival is an event dedicated to exploring and celebrating solar energy, hosted at ZAZ BELLERIVE on Sunday 22th of September. Participants from various fields come together to share their insights, experiences, and enthusiasm for the sun. From sunrise to sunset, the festival features a range of activities, including lectures, experiments, workshops, installations, and collective feasts. We follow the sun, interact with its radiation, and embrace its power. At dawn, we gather to welcome and celebrate its life-giving light, and at dusk, we part ways, carrying its warmth within us.

hosted and curated in collaboration with ZAZ BELLERIVE by ELECTRYONE.

ELECTRYONE is an ongoing experimental study group of architects, designers, photographers and cooks (ALIAS, Arnaud Bostelmann, COMTE/MEUWLY, Pierre Marmy and inter-) that critically examines and communicates the distance between energy production and its consumption. By yielding to the power of the sun—a symbol of resilience and environmental stewardship—we aim to delve into the dual nature of the sun as both a potent energy source and its protagonist role in historic cosmogonic visions. In doing so, ELECTRYONE reveals and articulates the often intangible disjunction between the raw resource, the applied energy, and their eventual consumption or final use.

and the participation of:

Solar Yoga (Balboa)
Balboa Coach Michèle combines two worlds: her love of electronic music and her passion for yoga result in a beaty, fluid flow that will make you sweat. Michèle will make you rise with the sun. Registration

Shades of sun (Alessia Bertini, Blanka Major, and Johanna Roth)
Alessia Bertini, Blanka Major, and Johanna Roth are trained and practicing architects. Together they explore potentials of spatial transformations trough culinary events. As a celebrating end to electryron, shades of sun invite all to a staged banquet. Through the chromatism of the compositions, the setting highlights the sun as a primary energy source for food production and its assimilation.

composition numéro 00 (Cyril Charlet)
Cyril Charlet is an architect based between Paris and Zürich. Composition numéro 00 is composed by a serie of devices that react to solar radiation, following the intuition that light projection and shadow could generate a milieu in synergy with its environment.

suns.works (Lorenzo Bernet)
suns.works is conceived as a cyclical gallery program, in alignment with the sun. The annual solstice project ‘Salon Solaire’ presents a pictorial cloud of solar motifs and sun-related art works, becoming a shared experience among participating artists and supporters that continues to shape the gallery’s identity since 2019.

Heliocentric Architecture (Matyas Enz)
Matyas Enz, graduated at Studio Tom Emerson with the thesis “Heliocentric Architecture”. Heliocentric architecture engages with the solar environment. It harnesses the sun’s energy by capturing, converting, blocking, diffusing, redirecting, and materializing it in many ways. Not only it aims to make buildings more energy-efficient but seeks to transform how humans engage with their surroundings, offering a potential solution to environmental challenges.

Concentrating sunlight (Baptiste Chatila)
Baptiste Chatila is a researcher at the EPFL Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory (LESO-PB). The Lab’s research activities focused on the development and implementation of energy efficient, renewable and sustainable energy technologies in the built environment.

Double sunrise (Matyas Enz, Janis Stainhauser, David Moser)
On 1 Septeber 2024, David, Janis and Matyas simulated an artificial sunrise on the Furka Pass at 6:44 a.m., 47 minutes before the sunrise.

MC SOLAARMC Solar (Fabian Bircher)

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