Burning Man is a week-long annual event that began in San Francisco’s Baker Beach in 1986 and migrated to the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada, in the United States. The event begins on the last Monday in August, and ends on the first Monday in September, which coincides with the American Labor Day holiday. It takes its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy, which is set alight on Saturday evening. The event is described as an experiment in community, art, radical self-expression, and radical self-reliance.

 

The design is based on a system called orderly tangle or regular polylinks. The system is commonly found in the design of small toys and small sculpture. The design of this pavilion is to prove that the system could be more than just toys and beautiful sculpture, and how small changes to the edges could affect the overall structure. The design revolved around the intertwining of the shapes that originated from an icosahedron. The sine curves replacing the straight edges provides more flexibility and with a certain calculation on rotation and movement, able to produce a beautiful polylinks. The pavilion is habitable either on the inside or on top which makes it more than just a sculpture in the sand. The pavilion is made of birch plywood which is combustible and will fit perfectly into Burning Man festival. The construction of the pavilion is intricate and requires good communication and effort from team members in order to complete the beautiful form of the pavilion. The design piece shows that even in disorder, there is order.