A hovering sphere scaled at 1/500,000th of the earth’s surface, and 80-foot-diameter (near 25 meter), by Bjarke Ingels and Jakob Lange, was built at the 2018 Burning Man festival in Black Rock City, Nevada.
Titled “The ORB”, the installation in the form of a metal sphere was designed as an inflated spherical mirror with a steel mast. The reflective sphere sits “at the axis of art & utility, capturing the entire Black Rock City in an airborne temporal monument that mirrors the Burning Man experience to the Burners as single beings in the midst of an intentional community."
A series of photos have captured the ORB from both Burning Man festival. The images of the people are reflected on the ball by day, and at night the inflatable “orbe” of steel gets confused in the dark. During the day, the ball acts as an orientation point in the Nevada desert.
Bjarke Ingels and Jakob Lange intended the giant sphere to act as a guiding landmark for festival-goers, and the two set up an Indiegogo campaign back in July to raise the remaining funding for the installation.
Fans who have funded the BIG project have received in return some small gifts: a small ball of metal from a desk, a poster, postcards, or all, if the financing was particularly generous (400 $). Amount reached at the moment: 34,301 $. If Bjarke Ingels is not an archi-rock-star, let’s say that it’s very close to it.
Titled “The ORB”, the installation in the form of a metal sphere was designed as an inflated spherical mirror with a steel mast. The reflective sphere sits “at the axis of art & utility, capturing the entire Black Rock City in an airborne temporal monument that mirrors the Burning Man experience to the Burners as single beings in the midst of an intentional community."
A series of photos have captured the ORB from both Burning Man festival. The images of the people are reflected on the ball by day, and at night the inflatable “orbe” of steel gets confused in the dark. During the day, the ball acts as an orientation point in the Nevada desert.
Bjarke Ingels and Jakob Lange intended the giant sphere to act as a guiding landmark for festival-goers, and the two set up an Indiegogo campaign back in July to raise the remaining funding for the installation.
Fans who have funded the BIG project have received in return some small gifts: a small ball of metal from a desk, a poster, postcards, or all, if the financing was particularly generous (400 $). Amount reached at the moment: 34,301 $. If Bjarke Ingels is not an archi-rock-star, let’s say that it’s very close to it.
