Practices preview Burning Man projects

East elevation of Atmos Studio's Playascape installation, planned for this year's Burning Man festival

London-based Atmos Studio, San Francisco’s John Marx and Finland’s JKMM show off desert pavilions

Practices bound for this year’s Burning Man festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert have unveiled some of the pavilions and installations event-goers will be able to experience.

London-based Atmos Studio has already started work on its PlayaScape feature, which it said “spliced the genes of a Euclidean radial amphitheatre with a fantasy landscape more familiar from sandstone canyons and termite-mound tower”.

It added that series of stepped contours at varied degrees of steepness around a semi-circular bowl echoed the plan of Black Rock City at the same time as “offering a space for the community to connect and interact”.

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