Team LMNOP Design Inc.

Caravancicle is a new camp at the Burning Man Festival. It sought to bring its users an experience common in Middle Eastern architecture, of approaching an imposing facade, passing through an elongated and compressing entryway, before emerging on to an open and serene courtyard. Its 18' tall Islamic entry gate was flanked on each side by almost 70' of painted facade. Stepping through the gate and into the portal, users traversed a floating red carpet as they passed through this reflective, triangular prism that compressed down to a 13' tall interior Islamic gate.

A geodesic dome of a fifty foot diameter was the centerpiece of the camp. Users would step inside to discover two diametric environments: heaven and hell. In "purgatory," in the center of the dome and separating heaven from hell, was located a circular bar with a DJ booth above it. Heaven was characterized by an interior landscape of flowing, white, strips of fabric, enhanced by fiberoptic and LED lighting. Hell was draped red and black fabric, Edison bulbs, skulls, and a suspended golden rhinoceros skeleton with wings.

Team LMNOP Design Inc. partnered with client Scott Mahoney to design and build upon Caravancicle “The Lost Hotel” a camp for Burning Man Festival. In order to improve the concept of the camp LMNOP Design Inc. was prompted to keep the constraint of ease of setup and break down in mind. As the entire project was built in the studio located in San Franciso ready to be shipped to the Burning man camp with ease of set up as the main goal.