Use: Monument

Project: Nikola Baãsic

Dimensions: max. 1.102 x 1.102 mm

 

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Greetings to sun, located in the port of Zadar, is a monument which symbolizes the Sun with the solar plates absorbing solar energy in anytime and transforming into unusual light effects during the night.

It uses solar power to create a light show that displays at night. After sunset the lighting elements are activated, and following a particularly programmed scenario, they produce very impressive show of light. The artistic installation consists of three hundred multi-layered glass plates, incorporated in the stone quay in the shape of a circle that measures 22 meters in diameter. People can walk on it. Below each glass pane there is a photovoltaic solar modules.

 

There is also a grid of light points underneath the glass, consisting in fact of a dispersed display with over 10.000 tiny light bulbs. 

The designer’s intent was to rejoin in urban space the joy of playing, of meetings, of the possibility to get in touch with nature, the pleasure of recognizing certain important and dear places to which inhabitants like to return and to reinforce the sense of belonging to a town.