southlight: November 2010

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

CristalBubble

"like an ataraxics catalyst"

CristalBubble´s shape was voluntarily designed with the goal to offer a dreamy space without disturbing the nature and the environment.

http://www.bubbletree.fr/bbtree/racine/default.asp?id=1076

Monday, November 29, 2010

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Inspired by the experience of walking through the dappled light of a forest, Canopy is a 90-metre long light sculpture spanning the front facade of the building, using mass production and precise fabrication to evoke and reflect nature. Thousands of identical modules, their form abstracted from the geometry of leaves, are organised in a non-repeating growth pattern.

During the day, apertures in the modules filter natural light to the street below. After dusk, particles of artificial light are born, navigate through the grid and die, their survival determined by regions of energy sweeping across the structure. The result simultaneously recalls the activity of cells within a leaf, leaves in a forest canopy, or a city seen from the air.

http://www.uva.co.uk/archives/134

Fresnals / solar navigator

http://www.solarnavigator.net/history/fresnel_lens.htm

Augustin-Jean Fresnel
(1788-1827)

Augustin-Jean Fresnel was a nineteenth century French physicist, most often remembered for the invention of unique compound lenses designed to produce parallel beams of light, which are still used widely in lighthouses. Born in Broglie, France on May 10, 1788, Fresnel was the son of an architect and received a strict, religious upbringing. His parents were Jansenists, a sect of Roman Catholics that believed only a small, predestined group would receive salvation and that the multitudes could not change their fate through their actions on Earth.(!)
from http://science.howstuffworks.com/framed.htm?parent=question244.htm&url=http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/timeline/people/fresnel.html