INFINITY TREE, BISMUTH BIVOUAC & REFLECTION

The Infinity Tree, The Bismuth Bivouac and Reflection are three architectural art pieces built at the Burning Man Festival 2015 by the students and tutors of Diploma Studio 10 at the University of Westminster. The Bismuth Bivouac was selected as one of the best structures of Burning Man 2015 by ArchDaily. This follows our experience building Shipwreck and Fractal Cult at Burning Man 2013, photographed by the legendary NKGuy for his Taschen Book.

Special Thanks

Bettie June Scarborough, Ben Stoelting, Brody Scotland, DaveX, Harry Charrington, Thomas Ermacora, Betty Lam and to all our Kickstarter Backers.

Superforma, Milan – Mattia Ciurnelli, PierLuigi de Palo

FabLab, Venice – Leonidas Paterakis

Design for Craft, Macerata – Emilio Antinori, Vincenzo Franchino

Plantura – Vittorio Bortolon, Camila Bortolon

WASP – Massimo Moretti, Davide Neri, Lapo Naldo, Nicola Schiavarelli

“The studio’s philosophy is to involve students as much as possible in the design, fabrication and construction process. We chose Burning Man for its ten guiding principles which include ‘Radical Self-Reliance’, ‘Radical Self-Expression’, ‘Leave no trace’ and ‘communal effort’. This meant playful and climbable structures, fully built by us as a team in a way that wouldn’t harm the local environment.

Over the course of four years, DS10 has submitted over 80 proposals to the Global Arts Grant of Burning Man and received a total of six grants including the ones for Fractal Cult and Shipwreck built in 2013 and Hayam in 2014. The studio receives constant support from the engineers at Format Engineering led by Stephen Melville.”