Paradisum, Burning Man

Paradisum, a large-scale timber installation at Burning Man in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, with Nick Rogers as construction lead. The work is a field of tapering timber towers clad in reclaimed-timber parquetry, crowned with radiating timber canopies and spires and linked by elevated walkways. The towers were prefabricated in sections, then assembled and craned into place on the playa with telehandlers and a mobile crane, in a short build window under desert conditions.