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Luxumbra
Luxumbra
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
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Luxumbra
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
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The decision to participate in the call to equip the science museum with a sundial compelled us to study these artifacts exhaustively. We reinforced our initial intuitions. We were fascinated by the ingenious genesis of these instruments, which synthesize the movements of the Earth in the solar system, based on the observation of shadows since ancient times. The proposal also addresses our concern about the excessive occupation of open space. The constructed solution marks the passage of time, accommodates adjustments between civil and solar time, serves as a bench, and provides other functions granted by the park's users. Additionally, we managed to place it within a landscaped area, avoiding obstruction of the usual traffic. The multifunctional steel fold, 50 mm thick and weighing 20 tons, replaces the gnomon of traditional sundials and appears as an irregular dihedral on one of the park's grass plots. Its shapes were precisely defined to reveal the passage of time. Central hours are marked with a beam of light, while the rest are marked with the shadow cast on the horizontal dial.
An essential dimension of the sundial is its thickness; the gnomon is no longer a rod but an immaterial element that is part of a body.
The sundial marks solar time at the point where it is located. To establish a precise reference to the official time in Las Palmas, we used corrections for geographic longitude and the equation of time (in the form of a lemniscate) engraved on the back of the bench's backrest.
The structural system is a self-sustaining active surface, with sheets 50 mm thick; and 30 mm for the horizontal dial, which is perfectly leveled with a homothetic substructure of angular shapes. Twenty thousand kilograms of steel oriented to the millimeter north-south.
We obtain a magical contraption inspired by nature. An object that is discovered according to the position of the viewer's gaze.
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