Our team’s work · State Farm Stadium

Ten casitas, right on the field.

Before Ekstra, our team designed, built and delivered ten VIP casitas to State Farm Stadium, home of the Arizona Cardinals. Modern design. Steel frame. Proven system.

The challenge

Ten guest suites in the end zone, for people who watch the game from the field itself. Our team started in February 2024 and delivered all ten in under five months.

Designed together

We started with a 3D model so the people running the suites could walk through the space and tell us what they thought. Their best idea, a stairway up to the rooftop so fans can watch from on top, became the heart of the design.

From there we added color and furniture until it looked like the real thing.

Inside a finished casita: the stairway to the rooftop, with lounge chairs, a bar and screens — The stairway to the rooftop, at the center of every suite.

A field that moves

State Farm Stadium’s field rolls in and out for every game. So the suites had to move, too.

Each suite sits on a trailer, so forklifts can set it in place on game day and tow it back to storage after. A lift in each trailer raises the suite to field level.

A black steel trailer in the factory, with a steel frame being assembled behind it — A trailer, with a frame going up behind it.

Built in a factory

Every suite is a steel frame, cut and built in a factory instead of on the field. That’s how the schedule worked, and why the tenth one is as precise as the first.

The first one taught us something. Its frame was done before its trailer showed up, so the crew lifted the whole thing on forklifts and backed the trailer in underneath. We did the other nine in the right order.

Steel wall pieces stacked in the factory, numbered for assembly — Wall pieces, numbered so they go together.

The crew lowering the first finished frame onto its trailer with two forklifts — The first unit: the frame on forklifts, the trailer backed in under it.

Ten units, one system

The same steel frame, ten times, with a deadline that wasn’t moving.

10on-field VIP casitas

< 5 monthsfrom the start of work to delivery

Feb 2024when work began

Several casitas closed in and standing side by side in the factory — The same suite, again and again.

Casitas on their trailers in the factory, ready to move — On their trailers, ready to move.

From factory to field

A finished steel frame lifted on two forklifts in the factory — A finished frame on two forklifts.

A casita closed in on its trailer in the factory, with two wide windows framed — Closed in, on its trailer.

Inside a casita before the finishes: the steel frame, the wiring, and the floor protected — Inside, before the finishes.

A row of finished casitas beside the field, with lounge seating in front — Finished, in a row beside the field.

A finished casita with its folding glass doors open, a lounge and the stairway to the rooftop inside — A finished suite, doors open.

The view from a casita rooftop across the field at State Farm Stadium — From the rooftop.

What this means for your backyard

What you design in the designer comes from that same work. Every Ekstra building starts with a steel frame cut in a factory. A stadium suite and a backyard studio are just different rooms on the same frame.

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