Dichotomic Dome
Dichotomic Dome is an installation that takes shape of Buckminster Fuller‘s 10 foot diameter geodesic dome ‘Fly’s Eye’, made out of hexagonal sheets that are connected to form a framework that defines openings of hexagonal and pentagonal forms.
The openings of the dome are covered with motorized patterns through which the light comes through and casts different forms of shadows within the dome. The patterns are motorized in order to rotate in the manner of the clock. As time passes and the patterns continue to rotate, their shape changes and the shadows that they cast also take a new form. The goal is to orchestrate the movement of casted shadows. For instance, at noon patterns will allow light through the dome in a centralized manner, appearing as it’s coming from one central opening.
In another iteration of the Dichotomic Dome the openings are covered with 22 6-facet round diamond-shaped glass windows that allows light to enter and exit from many directions and many angles. Consequently, the light is perpetually changing and interacting with surrounding objects and so serves the goal of the project which is to create multiple experiences through a single object. Following images are lighting simulations that show luminance values (light reflected off surfaces) within the dome under different weather conditions and times of the year.
This project is planned to be installed in the Museum of Senses in Zagreb, Croatia.
Professor and architect Neda Cilinger founded the Museum of Senses as a depository for collecting and displaying site-specific technology based art in the tunnel Grič. The tunnel was constructed in a year 1943 as a wartime bomb shelter. It lies north of Zagreb’s boulevard, Ilica, and runs parallel with the borderline between the new and the old city of Zagreb. It is 350 meters long and consisted of four corridors that occupy the total floor space of approximately 2000 square meters. Professor Cilinger’s objective has been to revive this landmark of Zagreb by converting it into an internationally recognized unique platform for digital art and urban media culture, the Museum of Senses. The interior of the tunnel will be filled with interactive multisensory artworks in all forms and formats, from installations to performances.
Professor Cilinger has invited Maja Petrić to develop innovative technological concepts specifically for the Museum of Senses that would be part of their larger academic collaboration on art, architecture, science, technology and engineering. Petrić has proposed two multisensory art installations, and one of those is the “Dichotomic Dome” that will cover the opening of the tunnel at the Vraniczany Meadow.
The red mark indicates the position and size of the tunnel and it’s exits into the old city of Zagreb. The drawing shows vertical exit out of the tunnel into the Vraniczany Meadow.
