Of geometric, white panels sounded together in a wavy sphere, Marc Fornes / TheverymanyThe latest public installation invites visitors to immerse themselves in a luminous experience on the Charleston East -Campus of Google in California.
Designed as a physical embodiment of innovation and creativity, “The Orb” invites us in a 10-meter long, 26-meter-wide labyrintic form made of ultra-thin aluminum. “Dealing with chimeless, surfaces curve, branch, split, together again and splitting again,” says the studio (earlier). “This extreme curvature-arranged by advanced calculation design care that the surfaces are fully self-sufficient, even though it is only three millimeters thick.”
“The Orb” includes 6,441 individual components related to more than 217,000 rivets. During the day, a pattern of holes in the sunlight sparkles over the pavilion and on the floor. At night, the structure is illuminated and throw deep shadows that contrast the clear details.
The mission of Fornes, hybridization elements of art and architecture, is to create ‘the joy around, to start the joy of surprising’.
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