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Photographs: Adam Mork
FISHING FOR CHANGE
Copenhagen’s Blue Planet aquarium immerses its visitors into the multifaceted world of the sea. A lighting design from Rosco helped to create projected water effects within the aquarium’s vast halls.
The new national aquarium in Denmark makes for a realistic journey to the bottom of the sea, with its colourful collections of tropical fish, along with its impressive tanks of stingrays and sharks.
Looking like a cascading whirlpool from above, the aquarium’s structure also makes for a stirring feast for the eyes, making a fitting replacment for the aquarium’s former home in Charlottenlund, which is bound to fire the imaginations of those who see it.
The design goal was to make the aquarium’s visitors feel like they were exploring the sea that surrounds the building. Using Rosco’s X24 effects projector, lighting designer
Jesper Garde Kongshaug created a realistic and controllable water effect that he projected throughout the vast concourse areas inside the aquarium.
Every aquarium is filled with ethereal, wavy effects of light shining through or reflecting off the various pools and tanks of water in exhibits. Blue Planet Aquarium wanted to incorporate those effects into its ‘swirling water’ inspired design to allow visitors a glimpse at the kind of life fish live deep within the Earth’s oceans. Kongshaug knew that, in order to immerse the visitors in an underwater experience, he would need to generate his own reflected water effect.
Over 40 Rosco DMX-controlled X24 effect projectors were installed throughout the building’s 53 aquariums, which gave Kongshaug complete control of the speed, direction and coverage of the projected water effects he created. Working with Rosco’s colour lab, he created a custom dichroic colour wheel that slowly circulated the blue, green and cyan colours chosen to emulate the Kastrup Harbour outside the aquarium’s walls. Jesper Kongshaug’s stunning lighting design brings the swirling waters of the sea inside the aquarium to accomplish the immersive vision of the design.
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