This by That matched design and research office Architensions with their client, Goldenvoice, to realize The Playground, an installation for The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2022. Augmenting the festival-goers’ experience, the project infuses color, light and meaning, and a unique sense of place and discovery into the Empire Polo Club over two weekends from April 15-17 and April 22-24, 2022.

The Playground consists of four steel-framed towers ranging in height from 42' to 56', like modular scaffolds holding shapes of various forms and materiality. The Playground uses magenta and yellow for the vertical grid and cyan for the piazza, colors derived from spectrum of the dichroic film used for the cladding of some of the shapes, while others are painted in solid colors chosen from the associated adjacencies of the three colors, resulting in an intentionally vibrant color experience.