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 E-Mail A diverse team of recent alumni and students from the University of Maryland (UMD) was recently named one of only ten winners worldwide for their stunning self-sustaining eco-restoration base, Ripple. As winners of the 2020 Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) International Design Challenge, the team will get to actually build their design this summer on the Fly Ranch in the Nevada desert, a 3,800 acre property recently acquired by the Burning Man Project. These will be the first permanent structures on the Fly Ranch, which is a protected ecosystem with many of its own maintenance an...

The top 10 designs for Fly Ranch, a permanent outpost of the Burning Man festival, include an orchard planted in a rammed earth spiral and thatched composting toilets. LAGI 2020 Fly Ranch is a collaboration between Burning Man and the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI), which plans to build sustainable structures on a 3,800-acre ranch in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. Top: The Source would be made of rammed earth. Above: Lodgers would use timber and thatch These 10 projects have been selected by a jury from 200 entries to the LAGI 2020 Fly Ranch design challenge. Studios were invited to come u...