The wedge tent is a typology that persists across forms of festival infrastructure—canopies, enclosures, and tensile assemblies. Its pitched geometry is adaptable, frequently abstracted into shade structures and spatial markers at music and arts festivals. We’re interested in how this form circulates—not only in what it looks like, but in how it performs across states of deployment, collapse, and reuse.

At the center of this project is a distinction between the temporary and the transient. Tents don’t expire; they move. Their use is serial, not singular, and this sensibility shapes our approach to materials and methods. The pavilion is built from existing warped plywood—deformed in storage and discarded by construction standards. Rather than correct this irregularity, the project builds with it, treating warp as a formal and structural condition.

Panels are further bent through sewing techniques—a low-tech, no-power method that resists the dominance of digital fabrication and precision tooling. While the frame assembly involves some powered tools, the pavilion’s central construction relies on joining through tension and touch. Even fire—often cited as humanity’s first low-tech tool—is absent here. There is no heat, no combustion, no transformation through force. In its place: a slower mode of making, one that accepts irregularity and misalignment as part of the architectural act. If this project engages the festival’s theme, it does so by subtraction—working against the assumption that technological progress requires energy, speed, or spectacle.

This pavilion treats deformation and displacement as generative forces. It foregrounds a construction process that is materially responsive and energy-independent—countering the fetishization of precision that underpins much of contemporary design/build culture. In both typology and technique, the project looks beyond temporary installation toward a model of transience: where structure is not fixed but iterative, and where materials retain histories of prior use and adaptation.