Resonance Tree

Project Description

About This Project

Resonance transforms bamboo, light, wind, sound, and human imagination into a shared ritual experience, bringing together generations of craftsmanship, regenerative design, and immersive architecture in one living work of public art.

Phase 1 — The Resonance Tree

Debuting at Burning Man, the Tree rises seven meters above the playa as a climbable sanctuary built from ninety six bamboo poles, thirty cantilevered limbs, sixty branches, sculptural roots, woven climbing nets, and a canopy of warm solar light. Suspended at its center, the Windolier turns slowly with the desert wind, transforming movement into light, sound, and shadow.

Phase 2 — The Resonance Conch

In 2027, every pole, every weave, and every lesson becomes part of the Resonance Conch, a three story bamboo queen conch shell woven from the bones of the Tree.

The Experience

What It Feels Like

From far across the playa, the Resonance Tree rises from the desert floor, its woven roots spiraling skyward to form a living canopy of light, sound, and bamboo. As you draw closer, shadows dance across the earth, branches sway with the desert wind, and the bamboo heart at the crown of the Tree begins to sing, gently calling you closer. Two hand woven sculptural roots open like portals, inviting you to enter low to the earth. Inside, the world slows. You crawl through woven tunnels of bamboo, stand beneath spiraling gridshells of living geometry, and look up to catch glimpses of the desert sky framed by climbable lattices as suspended nets invite stillness. High above the playa, held in the canopy, protected, yet open to the horizon, the desert unfolds in every direction. For a moment, you are quiet. For a moment, you are held. And for a moment, you remember you belong. There is no required path. The Tree is built for whoever you are when you arrive.

Inclusivity Statement

Resonance is rooted in the belief that the most powerful spaces are the ones where everyone feels they belong. We are committed to fostering a radically inclusive community by amplifying BIPOC, Indigenous, and LGBTQ plus voices through sound, ritual, storytelling, and collaboration. Indigenous elders, cultural leaders, artists, and community members are invited to help shape the experience through blessings, songs, prayers, and shared wisdom, grounding the Tree not only in the earth beneath it, but in the cultures, histories, and human stories that connect us all.

Materials & Regenerative Practices

Built by hand in Bali in collaboration with Bamboo Pure, the Resonance Tree celebrates bamboo not simply as a material, but as a living cultural lineage. Woven into its structure are generations of craft, multiple bamboo species, traditional weaving techniques, laminated structural rings, split bamboo gridshell systems, and modern engineering practices developed across continents and cultures. Every pole, every split, every bend, and every connection tells a story of ingenuity, resilience, and a material that has sheltered communities for thousands of years.

Bamboo, the tallest grass on earth, reaches harvest in just a few years, bends without breaking, stores carbon as it grows, and continues to teach us what strength, flexibility, and regeneration truly look like. Through the Resonance Tree, that wisdom is brought from the jungles of Bali to the world stage, inviting people not only to experience bamboo as architecture, but as sculpture, sanctuary, and living inspiration.

Built with steel wire joinery, wireless solar lighting, and no bolts, no screws, and nothing drilled, every element is designed with a second life in mind. At the end of the burn, every pole, every weave, every lesson, and every piece returns home to become part of the Resonance Conch.

Not a single piece is built to be discarded.