Art · Resonance Art Collective
The Resonance Tree
The built first phase of Resonance: a bamboo pavilion with a woven hourglass trunk, a steel crown ring, a climbable net, and wind chimes. Modeled as a gridshell, fabricated in Bali, and raised on the playa at Burning Man 2026.
- Location
- Black Rock City, NV
- Year
- 2026
- Built
- Fabricated in Bali, raised in Black Rock City
The problem
Black Rock City gives art one hostile site: gale-force gusts, alkaline dust, and a city that exists for a week. The brief was a climbable sanctuary that reads as sculpture from afar, built from bamboo and able to travel.
What we built
A woven trunk
A reciprocal-frame bamboo trunk with woven roots to crawl through and climbing nets in the crown.
Engineered for the desert
Modeled in Rhino and designed to ISO 22156 for open-desert wind and crowd loads.
Made in Bali
Prefabricated by master craftspeople in Bali and shipped by container to Nevada.
Solar lanterns
A canopy of solar-powered lanterns, each simulated for sun access and battery runtime.
The result