05.02.2023
Designed for the Sunny Hill Foundation, the Sunny Hill Festival Venue was developed between 2022 and 2024 as a permanent cultural infrastructure for what has become the largest music festival in South Eastern Europe. Conceived to host up to 100,000 visitors, the project transforms the festival from a temporary event into a long-term civic and territorial investment for Prishtina, reinforcing the city’s role as a regional cultural capital.
The masterplan establishes a clear spatial hierarchy that organizes stages, audience fields, service areas, emergency routes, and production infrastructure into a coherent and safe framework. Designed for peak capacity while remaining adaptable to different event scales, the venue integrates approximately 38,690 m² of green areas and preserves around 1,000 existing trees.
Beyond preservation, the project introduces the planting of thousands of new trees, gradually transforming large portions of the site into a dense and lush woodland landscape. This ecological strategy is particularly significant given the site’s recent history: the terrain had previously been used as an earth dumping ground during the construction of the nearby highway, leaving behind a largely barren and degraded ground condition.
Through landscape restoration, modular infrastructure, and scalable systems, the project reclaims and redefines a disturbed territory into a vibrant cultural landscape. The intervention balances large-scale performance requirements with long-term environmental regeneration, turning a former infrastructural leftover into a living public asset. In doing so, the Sunny Hill Festival Venue establishes a new benchmark for sustainable, high-capacity festival architecture in the region—where culture, ecology, and urban transformation converge.
