Bamboo architecture for spaces that move people
We design, engineer, supply, and build large-scale bamboo structures for festivals, celebrations, immersive art, and the people building a regenerative future.
The Studio
The team behind the Resonance Tree
Resonance Studio grew out of a build: a seven-meter (22 ft) bamboo pavilion designed, engineered, and prefabricated by an artist-led crew, and raised at Burning Man 2026. Getting it this far has taught us everything the hard way: sourcing structural bamboo into the United States, engineering full-culm joinery, prefabricating for a nine-day desert build.
From a drawing of a conch to a premiered Burning Man installation in under two years — now we offer that whole capability to you. Whether you are an artist with a vision, a festival with a field, or a couple with a meadow, we bring the design, the engineering, and the bamboo.
Start Here
Three doors in
Volunteers raised this. Most had never lashed bamboo before the summer it went up.
What We Do
One studio, the whole build
Architecture & Design
Concept-to-permit design for bamboo pavilions, stages, and buildings. Festivals, weddings, and immersive installations: spatial experiences first, structures second.
Learn more →Structural Engineering
Load paths, joinery, and lateral systems for full-culm bamboo. Engineered drawings your county, festival, or insurer can say yes to.
Learn more →Project Management
Crew leadership, logistics, and on-site build direction. We raised a seven-meter (22 ft) pavilion in the open desert at Burning Man 2026; we can run your build anywhere.
Learn more →Prefabricated Components
Trusses, arches, panels, and direct-imported structural poles: treated, graded, and sold in project-sized quantities with no container-load minimum.
Learn more →Consulting
Feasibility, budgets, material sourcing, and permitting strategy from people who already made the mistakes, so you do not have to.
Learn more →Rent the Resonance Tree
Our flagship piece, at your event, delivered, installed, lit, and produced. Gather your people under it; we handle everything else.
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First Install
The Resonance Tree
A bamboo pavilion built to gather a whole camp under: a canopy engineered from full-culm bamboo, prefabricated across two continents, and raised by volunteer crews at Burning Man 2026.
It is our proof of work: design, engineering, import, prefab, and build management, all under one roof.
In Design
The Resonance Conch
Our next piece: a spiral shell you can walk into, a woven bamboo chamber with a nest at its crown, lantern fields at its feet, and acoustics tuned for gathering.
The Conch is in design now, and it's commissionable: bring it to your festival, venue, or land as its first home.
See the ProjectAfter Dark
The Tree, lit
By day it gives shade. After dark it becomes a lantern: hundreds of solar lights breathing through the canopy while the desert dances underneath. This is what your event books.
Burn day, sunset to night — twenty seconds of the premiere. The full build film is in the edit.
Engineering You Can Touch
We simulate before we build
Two live tools from the Resonance Tree project, built by our team to answer real engineering questions, open for you to play with.
Live Simulation
Solar Harvesting Visualizer
Per-panel sun access, harvest, and nightly battery runtime for every light on the Tree, a physics-based loss model, bench-calibrated against real hardware.
Open the visualizer →3D Mirror Twin
Lighting Visualizer
The Tree's lighting design in interactive 3D, every lantern placed, dimmed, and tuned in the browser before a single fixture was fabricated.
Open the visualizer →
Why Bamboo
The fastest structure nature grows
Regenerative by nature
Bamboo reaches structural maturity in three to five years and regrows from the same root system, a building material you harvest like a crop, not a forest.
Strength that surprises
Pound for pound, structural bamboo rivals steel in tension and concrete in compression, and it is light enough for a crew to raise by hand.
Fast, movable, kind
Prefabricated bamboo goes up in days, tours between events, and comes down without a trace, the right answer for festivals, celebrations, and pop-up worlds.
Black Rock City at sunset — the ground our first structure stood on. Its colors run through everything we build.
Have a structure in mind?
Tell us about your site, your event, or the thing you can't stop sketching. We'll tell you honestly what bamboo can do for it.