Since 1999, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has drawn the rich and the famous to the Southern California desert for a six-day party packed with stunning installations that give the live bands a run for their money. For Los Angeles design firm Ball-Nogues Studio, the event was ideal for debuting a building material it had been developing for years: recycled-paper pulp.
Status: Built
Location: Indio, CA, US
My Role: Project Manager, Fabricator
Additional Credits: Project Name: Pulp Pavilion, Indio, Calif.
Client: Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
Design Firm: Ball-Nogues Studio, Los Angeles—Gaston Nogues, Benjamin Ball, Assoc. AIA (project leads/designers), Rafael Sampaio Rocha (project manager); Ricardo Garcia, John Guinn, Fernando Marroquin, Rafael Sampaio Rocha, Forster Rudolph, Corie Saxman, Nicole Semenova, Ethan Schwartz (onsite project team); Andrew Fastman, AIA, Michael Anthony Fontana, Cory Hill, James Jones, Mora Nabi, Jacob Patapoff, Allison Porterfield (support)
Lighting Programming: F. Myles Sciotto
Structural Engineer: Nous Engineering—Omar Garza
Fabricator: Ball-Nogues Studio
Funding: Commission from Goldenvoice
Size: 1,300 square feet
