It’s the Temple of Promise. In the midst of a carnival of chumps, suckers, and rubes. Nestled within the 100-foot high Temple structure will be a very Bohemian grove of trees.
Looks like it should provide great shelter in a dust storm, especially with that copper cowling. I think it will sound amazing from the inside.
From the Temple of Promise Facebook page:
The Dreamers Guild is a new collective of builders, artists, caretakers, and dreamers. We are honored that our first project as a team will be to build the Temple for Burning Man in 2015. Temple of Promise is brought to you by dreamers including:
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Jazz Tigan: Artist/Designer
Dan Swain: Architect
Jason DeCook “Woodshop”: Build Lead
Todd Evans: Project Manager
April M. Jones: Communications Lead
Gloria Beck: Volunteer Lead
Douglas Smith and Jordan Rose: Architect Design Team
Mark Day: Documentarian/Videographer
Leori Gill: Bookkeeper, Photographer
Scooter Wilson: Lighting Team
Dylan Modell: Crew Support
Communications and Fundraising Team: Dave Slater, Elaine Noble, Melissa Kirk, Sharma Hendel, more.
Kevin Byall: Grove Lead
Kenji Aragaki: Fire Pits Lead—————————————————————The Temple is a Journey
Everyone who comes to Black Rock City is on a journey. We were inspired by the idea that the Temple could support, enrich, and deepen this journey through its very design. To this end, our offering first presents an immense skyward reaching spire but immediately invites you deeper, offering a transformative path as it gradually twists and tapers to an imminently human scale.The Temple Serves
Our offering provides solemn spaces for individual contemplation as well as the
capacity to accommodate larger gatherings of both remembrance and celebration. Traditions and rituals make the Temples of Burning Man truly singular – they are secular, ephemeral, and defined by the participation of their visitors. Our offering recognizes and cherishes these elements while seeking to interpret in a unique way.The Temple Listens
The Burning Man community engages deeply with its Temple, coming to this place of sanctity with many different needs, carrying many different burdens. We view the Temple experience as a conversation with the space and feel the primary role of the Temple is not to speak but to listen. This guiding principle has been a touchstone informing every aspect of our design process.
From Voices of Burning Man:
For four years in a row, the temples of Black Rock City have been palatial, romantic, classical in design. Time’s up. Some members of the 2015 Temple crew worked on the enchantingly abstract, boundary-pushing Temple of Flux five years ago, and they have brought that same fluid, organic inspiration to this year’s design: the Temple of Promise.
The Temple of Promise is a guide. It’s a calming hand, and it’s a listening ear. Nestled in its center is a grove of trees. It’s no tower or pyramid or other such shape dictated by logic alone. It is no less a temple for its lifelike forms. It is more.
Scattered amidst the flow of the Temple area, wooden sculptures shaped like stones form a soft boundary. The tapering spiral of the main structure provides shelter and quiet. The lobed spire at its opening will tower 97 feet high. The tail of the building curls into a circle around the open-air grove, a container well suited for gatherings. The trees will be bare at the beginning of the week, but participants will leave their messages on strips of white cloth, which they will hang from the trees like the leaves of a weeping willow.
Here’s some of the previous work of this Temple Crew that members of this Temple Crew have participated in as part of other crews:
Temple of Flux, 2010. Image: Neil Girling/Flickr (Creative Commons)
Trojan Horse, 2011. Image: Sharona Gott/Flickr (Creative Commons)
Anubis, 2012. Image: The Tablehopper/Flickr (Creative Commons)
Alien Siege Machine, 2014. Image: John Tock/Flickr (Creative Commons)