A space-frame structure in the desert surrounding Red Rock Canyon in Nevada—a temporary pavilion for the Nevada Museum of Art—combines the plan of Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Map with the layered section and node-and-tube construction inspired by Konrad Wachsmann’s aircraft hangars.

Less formal and more temporary than a building, yet more occupiable than a sculpture, the proposed pavilion nods to the history of land art in Nevada and to the tradition of Bucky-inspired, Do-It-Yourself structures in the desert. Simultaneously familiar and mysterious, the structure recalls the utility infrastructures that dot the landscapes of the American West, but with an unfamiliar form and scale. The context of the nearby Nevada Test Site and layers of abandoned projects and infrastructure lend the project an air of enigmatic inscrutability.