Experience Design - 2025

Serendisco Music Festival

Built

Client: Serendisco - Sri Lanka's largest house music festival
Role: Set Designer + Creative Direction
Year: 2025
Timeline: 6 Months
Type: Commissioned Festival Installation
Approach: Cultural research → wireframe modelling → material study

Tools - AI-Assisted Rendering

A 24-foot walk-through Yaka Mask entrance and the Neon Jungle Village relief space for Sri Lanka's largest house music festival - 5,000+ guests.

Two commissioned installations for Serendisco 2025 - designed end-to-end to feel unmistakably modern Sri Lankan at festival scale: a walk-through Yaka Mask entrance threshold and the Neon Jungle Village indoor lounge.

Guests: 5,000+
Mask height: 24 ft
Design timeline: 6 mo
Installations: 2

The Work

3 installations

Yaka Mask entrance - final render (stained-glass petal direction)

Installation

Yaka Mask Entrance

Approach

Cultural research - Yaka mask tradition

Wireframe modelling + material study

Fabrication spec pack

Inspiration & materials

Materials/Dichroic Plexiglass · Steel

Yaka mask - traditional Sri Lankan carving

Yaka mask dancer - ceremonial procession

From the studio

Initial mask sketch - Yaka tradition study

Line drawing - front elevation with Serendisco 2025 lockup

Exploded structure - crown, mask, and arch base

From steel frame to dichroic skin to lit final - material transformation study

Mask alternative - flame-blade crown study

Mask alternative - leaf-bundle silhouette study

Mask alternative - full Yaka face with feathered crown

Inspiration, wireframing & material studies

Installation

Two Pillar Entrance

Concept

An earlier threshold direction - a pair of mirrored entrance pillars framing the arrival path, exploring a lighter, more colonnaded approach before the design consolidated into the single Yaka Mask archway.

Renders

Installation

Neon Jungle Village

Concept

Beyond the entrance, I led creative direction for the festival's indoor relief space - a Tree of Life centerpiece, UV lighting, fabric draping, fluorescent film, and low seating in dim purple-green-blue neon. A place to experience Disco Pettah and decompress between sets.

Initial sketch - entrance, Neon Jungle Village, Tree of Life centerpiece

Built & live

Build-out - hall before dressing, Tree of Life centerpiece installed

Pettah-style street cart and fruit baskets under the tree, daylight

Disco Pettah at night - sunset ceiling projection, Tree of Life in warm fairy lights

Pelican Island bar live - guests under the tree, purple-pink wash at peak hours

Outcome

Delivered as a commissioned proposal - designed, never built.

Credits

Set Designer + Creative Direction: Yanik Wickremasinghe
Festival: Serendisco - Sri Lanka

Next project

Sri Lanka Pavilion - World EXPO 2030

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