ROB OLINS
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Hygens Flow, Cambridge University

Cambridge Universities new Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics is to be one of the key UK venues for research into the behaviour of light. Adjacent to the main entrance, Olins has created an artwork that illustrates how light can be created, controlled and transferred from one point to another when passing through different media.
 
The design comprises two illuminated water jets projecting 7m long and 2.5m high shot from within the pool. Complimenting this, two lengths of side emitting fibre optic cable are laid in the pool. The jet can be switched on and off creating pulses of water which can vary in length, frequency, colour and intensity. Currently set on a 24-hour cycle, a programme is being developed with the university, which will make this work operate interactively.
 
Materials                    Stainless Steel, Side Emitting Fibre Optic,
Date                          2006
Size                           20m x 15m x 2.5m
Site                            Centre for Advanced Photonics and            Electronics, Cambridge University, UK
Consultants                 Oase Pumpen, University of Cambridge, Light Projects, TP Bennett Architects

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    • Out there
    • Cody Dock Festival
    • Swansea
    • Birmingham Rep
    • Things that aren't there
    • House of Mirrors
    • Sonic Anomaly Sideshow
    • Sonic Waterloo
    • Acoustic Ceiling
    • BatNav NightSight
  • Socially Engaged
    • Grow 2 Know
    • Sense by Sounds
    • Listening Dragon
    • House of Mirrors Project Sensory Experience
    • Thresholds
    • Leysdown Lights
    • Truro Health Park
    • Haverhill
    • Clacton College
    • Phononic Crystal
  • Commissions
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