Astrahedra are an infinite sequence of lights that visualise the interstellar void, home of Dark Matter and Energy. An astrahedron is a fractional splinter of the universe.
Designed 2012 / Exhibitions Create Berlin Nightshift 2012, DMY Asia Tour Taiwan/Hong Kong 2012, Stockholm Furniture Fair Greenhouse 2013 and Ventura Lambrate Warehouse 2013. Featured in Casa da Abitare 04/2013
Sizes variable / 1 CFL, 2500-4000 K, 1600-1940 lm, 23-30 W, dimmable / Titanium-ceramic (TiN) mirror-finish coated or powder coated stainless steel / Textile dual-conduit cable, adjustable single 1mm steel wire suspension / Lights customisable by selection of astronomic objects and/or constellation
Tabbed stainless steel elements are folded and joined invisibly along their inner edges with Japanese spring-steel clips and adhesive. The perforated folds, illuminated from within, trace the true distance between astronomic objects - the lights’ corners. Depending on the desired illumination, certain elements are made from translucent plastics.
The interstellar void is not empty; it is filled with radiation, dust, gas and the unseen that provides structure to the Universe: Dark Matter and Energy. Their existence is derived from the unexpected orbital velocities of stars at galaxies’ outer rims. After the first light in the universe was captured by ESA’s Planck satellite 2013, we know that the universe contains 95,1% Dark Matter and Energy and only 4,9% atoms. The stuff that also we are made from is 13,82 billion years old.
