TEMPLE ANAM CARA

TEMPLE ANAM CARA
Black Rock City, Nevada

Temple Anam Cara is a monumental, multi-level pyramid temple created for Burning Man. Our team at Vast Studio collaborated across creative direction, surface design, and on-site execution—delivering hand-painted murals on every face of the structure. The visual language we developed blends celestial deities, Mesoamerican geometry, and atmospheric gradients, transforming the architecture into a beacon in the desert.

Designed as an immersive, climbable experience, the installation invited participants to ascend exterior ramps and gather within a mural-lined sanctuary. Working alongside the build partners, we advanced color studies, produced shop mockups, and led finishing workflows tailored for playa conditions—heat, wind, dust, and rapid schedules.

Temple Anam Cara shows how large-scale event installations can drive audience flow, dwell time, and social reach. Vast Studio managed paint systems, team staffing, QA/QC finishing, and remote logistics—demonstrating our end-to-end capability for festivals, cultural events, and branded environments.

Monumental pyramid installation with a kinetic tree sculpture and hand-painted murals, drawing crowds—large-scale festival art design-build by Vast Studio.
Visitors inside the pyramid surrounded by gold and cobalt murals—an immersive, photogenic environment crafted for audience engagement.
Inside a cavernous fabrication warehouse ready for staging large public-art components and full-scale mockups.
Gloved fabricator marking shop drawings—design engineering and build documentation for complex public-art structures.
Completed pyramid temple standing in the open desert—large-scale festival architecture designed and built for rapid deployment.
Welder suiting up in the shop—Vast Studio’s skilled fabrication team preparing components for a large immersive installation.
Close-up of MIG welding on a steel frame—precision structural fabrication for a festival-scale artwork.
Multiple pyramid modules painted and staged in the shop—modular assembly streamlining transport and on-site install.
Artist on lift painting a celestial deity on a pyramid face—custom murals integrated with architectural sculpture.

SERVICES

Consultancy

  • Public art visioning integrated with affordable housing development goals

  • Cultural storytelling strategies tied to Inglewood’s community identity

  • Budgeting, coatings system specifications, and lift access planning

  • City coordination for developer approvals and façade integration

Design & Fabrication

  • Large-scale mural design with botanical and figurative symbolism

  • Architectural adaptation to a vertical tower façade

  • Multi-surface renderings and mockups for stakeholder approval

  • Future-ready framework for potential lighting/AR integration

Project Management

  • Contractor and site coordination during housing construction phase

  • QA/QC and safety compliance across scaffolded installation

  • Multi-stakeholder alignment between developer, GC, and city partners

  • On-time delivery aligned with property turnover and tenant move-in