142 LIGHT + TECH


OTHER PROJECTS


Planetarium (Hemisfèric), Valencia ‘Throughout the oeuvre of Calatrava, forms are rendered more dynamic by the use of large glazed surfaces,’ says Jodidio. ‘Lit from within at night, they are the source of the continuous variation of interior lighting during the day.’ The Planetarium, an Imax theatre, was built between 1995 and 1998. It is part of Valencia’s now landmark City of Arts and Sciences, an ambitious 20-year scheme to rehabilitate a 35-hectare area on the eastern edge of the city, with all buildings – including opera house, science museum and Europe’s largest aquarium – designed by Calatrava.


. Shaped like an eye, it can open and close like one. The glass-bottomed lake the building sits on completes the eye image with its reflection. It also enhances the Bluetooth-controlled (Casambi) RGBW lighting that takes over at nightfall, creating striking light and colour effects.


The hemispheric dome with movable ribbed covering has an area of almost 2,600m2


This image The 15,000m2 pavilion had 28 movable carbon-fibre composite wings powered by 46 hy-draulic actuators


Below Planetarium (Hemisfèric), Valencia


UAE Pavilion at Expo 2020, Dubai Inspired by the falcon, the national bird of the UAE, the 15,000m2


pavilion had


28 movable carbon-fibre composite wings powered by 46 hydraulic actuators. The wings protect a surface grid of photovoltaic panels in their closed position while allowing as much sunlight as possible to reach them when they are open.


The lines of the interior design converge to and flow from the central 12m-diameter oculus that is 27m above the ground, bringing natural light into the exhibition spaces.


Zurich University Law Faculty A series of seven oval reading levels are hung within the atrium, ‘staggered on each level so that it is no longer the floor area that increases as they approach the roof but the space they circumscribe’. This design allows natural light to penetrate deeper into the heart of the structure and its reading area.


ORTHODOX CHURCH AND NATIONAL SHRINE, NEW YORK


Calatrava’s watercolour sketches are an eloquent expression of his interest in light and space for the church that replaced a 19th-century building destroyed by falling debris during the 9/11 attacks. Occupying a site at 130 Liberty Street on the edge of the National September 11 Memorial park, the church is built largely from white Vermont marble. The central dome-shaped structure and a portion of the rest of the building is clad in a translucent skin that makes the building a glowing lantern at


ST NICHOLAS GREEK


BARBARA BURG + OLIVER SCHUH, PALLADIUM PHOTODESIGN


ALAN KARCHMER / OTTO


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