Architect: New-Territories / R&Sie(n) - Creative team: François Roche, Stéphanie Lavaux, Toshikatsu Kiuchi With Sandra Meireis, Ulrike Marie Steen, Hamish Rhodes, Sina Momtaz - Light Engineer: Benoit Lalloz -Glass Craftsmen: Stephane Rivoal, Pedro Veloso
« Construction of a laboratory of light to test both the dark adaptation, to reduce urban light pollution, and the melatonin effect, with Oled lamp, to test the human metabolism circadian cycle and the UV pathologies from the Ozone weakness evolution.
Scenario
1) Defining an astronomical astrolabe shape by creating a correspondence between the location of the building and its celestial position.
2) Dedicating the observatory to:
- The moon the aster of the night , by tracking its position through the rotation of the observatory itself;
- The sun, by collecting energy with phosphorescent pigments and photovoltaic cells.
3) Outdoor / Detection of the intensity of sun radiation by after-glowing external surfaces, influenced by the seasonal and daily emission of the sun, through the surfaces touched directly by its rays. The phosphorescence components (Isobiot®opic oxide pigment) are working as UV sensors and detectors and indicate by night the intensity of UV that affected the zone by day, including people and all species. These glass components are by this way revealing and making visible the sun radiation dangerousness and the evolution of the Ozone concentration in the stratosphere.
4) Indoor / Testing and studying human physiology about aspects by the minimum perception of light and adaptation to darkness, and of how, conversely, bright light intensity affects our metabolism. »
New-Territories (S/he)
