Lotus

LOTUS are smart foils which unfolds organically in response to human behaviour. Based on the temperature of your hand and light LOTUS folds open. LOTUS gives a poetic morphing of space and people.

Located in the 17th-century Sainte Marie Madeleine Church in Lille (FR), LOTUS DOME creates an interactive play of light and shadow. As a futuristic vision of the Renaissance, LOTUS DOME merges elements of architecture and nature into an interactive environment. LOTUS is also realized as a curved 4 x 2 meters wall. LOTUS MODEL is a smart lotus flower which blooms in reaction to the heat of visitors’ hand. The artwork glows subtly when the hand is approached as its smart leaves fold open.

LOTUS DOME is a living dome made out of hundreds of smart flowers.

LOTUS is the interactive artwork of smart foils that fold open in response to human behavior.

Specifications:

2010-2011. Smart foils, lamps, sensors, software and other media.

Clients:

City of Lille for the Lille3000 FANTASTIC exhibition, Vitra Design Museum Weil am Rhein.

Awards:

A’Design Gold Award + Media Architecture Award Denmark.

Selected Exhibitions

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Lotus

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Lotus Dome

Studio06.may.2018

LOTUS DOME takes home the A’Design Gold Award

Our travelling LOTUS DOME folds open according to the heat of visitors hands, revealing light. More info on the award here.

Lectures10.mar.2017

Lecture at FID Costa Rica Design Week

Daan Roosegaarde will be speaking at International Design Festival in Costa Rica on March 11 about design to improve life. Welcome and full information at FID.

Lotus opens in Antwerp Museum
Roosegaarde's Lotus Model opens at Museum aan de Stroom in Antwerp. The artwork interacts with human heat and transforms the entrance of the exhibition 'Buddha & the Mind' into a poetic experience. Exhibition from 21 October till 19 March 2017 at MAS Antwerp, Belgium.