The Dome

source: dezeen

Revellers at this year’s Coachella festival in California can visit a silent disco inside a dome of colour-changing balls by Spanish designer Héctor Serrano.

Produced by Borealis, the installation arm of Serrano’s studio, The Dome is built from nearly 1000 inflated PVC spheres with LED lights at their centres. “They’re kind of like beach balls,” Serrano told Dezeen.

Each LED is connected to a computerised system, which relays a combination of around 50 different patterns of light and colour. The program can be downloaded to a smartphone or tablet, making it easy to alter the sequence.

Serrano says he originally planned to rent a much smaller structure, but ended up using a dome that Coachella already owned.

“It’s four times bigger than our original proposal,” he explains. “We had to have the balls custom made in China to get them ready in time.”

The structure was installed for the two weekends of the annual music festival and will be dismantled later this month.

Héctor Serrano is based in London. Past projects by the designer include a speaker designed to look like a computer icon and a set of accessories for turning balloons into animal heads. See more design by Héctor Serrano.

Other designs we’ve featured from music festivals include tree-mounted urinals at Roskilde in Denmark and star-shaped lights from Burning Man festival in Nevada.

Here’s some more information from Héctor Serrano:

Inspired by the Pantheon dome in Rome, the installation resemblance a cathedral of light, an art piece where the visitor is immerse in a 360º unique experience completely surround with light. The dome works as immersive environments when inside and as large scale sculpture when view from outside. The dome is made out of nearly 1000 spheres and LEDs that are used as a pixel, creating a volumetric environment with infinite patterns and possibilities.

Borealis is the installation division of Hector Serrano. The Dome launches on Friday 12 April and will be open for Coachella two weekends 12-15 and 19-21 and attended by more than 200,000 people. The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is an annual three-day music and arts festival, held in Indio, California in the Inland Empire’s Coachella Valley. The event features many music genres, including rock, indie, hip hop, and electronic music, as well as sculpture.
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source: dvice

I can’t quite figure out why, but it seems like temporary domed structures are a frequent fixture at music festivals. Multi-colored beach ball-like spheres covered the most recent iteration of this odd tradition at California’s 2013 Coachella music festival.

Designed by Héctor Serrano for Borealis, The Dome, as it was cleverly named, is way more of an art installation than a true escape from the elements. This seems kind of silly — wouldn’t it be nice to have somewhere pretty to go during an unexpected downpour? But then again, you West Coasters aren’t as concerned about things like rain, and these glowing orbs really do look nice set against the festival at night.

That’s what we’re bringing you in the gallery below. No practical respite from the weather, just a solid, neat-looking art installation made with PVC pipe and LEDs stuck right in the middle of Coachella. That’s actually pretty fitting now that we think about it.
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source: borealisagency

Borealis is a creative agency specialising in design and producing innovative installations and exhibitions. We create extraordinary relationships between brands and people through unique spatial experiences. Our work tells compelling, beautiful and unforgettable stories that people relate to in a unique way, positioning our clients in an exceptional way. We understand brand values and how to translate them into physical experiences. We are a team of product designers, architects, interaction designers, visual artists and producers. Borealis was founded and is directed by award-winning product designer Héctor Serrano as a natural response to the increasing demand for installation work that his studio has received over the last few years.
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source: hectorserrano

Design office founded by Héctor Serrano in London in 2000. Our projects combines innovation with the communication of familiar ideas in unusual and inventive ways. The studio’s activities are divided into product and laboratory work. In this last area we undertake research projects that allow us to put new formuli into practice, in addition to questioning existing ones. The constant exchange between these areas enriches the process, giving rise to successful, long lasting products and projects. Our client list includes companies such as FontanaArte, Gandia Blasco, Roca, ICEX Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, Droog, Metalarte, La Casa Encendida (Caja Madrid) and Valencia city council among others. We have received different awards such as the Peugeot Design Award, the Premio Nacional de Diseño No Aburridos and in the last year the second prize for the New Bus for London competition with Miñarro García and Javier Esteban and Designer of the Year 2009 by AD magazine. Our products have been exhibited extensively in museums such as the V&A in London and the Cooper-Hewit National Design Museum in New York and are part of different collections such as the Central Museum of Amsterdam. Héctor studied Industrial Design in Valencia before moving to London to study a master’s degree in Product Design at The Royal College of Art.
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source: criadesignblog

The Dome, uma verdadeira obra de arte inspirada pelo domo do Panteão de Roma. O criador é o designer espanhol Héctor Serrano, que hoje vive e trabalha em Londres.

Trata-se na verdade de uma instalação, onde o visitante é imerso em uma experiência de 360º completamente envolto pela luz. O domo tem na realidade dois efeitos: por dentro, oferece uma experiência imersiva, e por fora, se assemelha a uma imensa escultura. Para construir esta grande obra, foram usadas mil esferas e luzes LED que foram utilizadas como um pixel cada uma, criando um ambiente com uma forte impressão de volume, com infinitos padrões e possibilidades.

Toda a instalação foi produzida pela Borealis, o braço do Studio de Serrano responsável pelas instalações artísticas do designer. Cada luz LED é fixada no centro das esferas, como se elas fossem luminárias coloridas.
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source: dissenycves

Borealis, la división dedicada a instalaciones del estudio del diseñador valenciano Héctor Serrano ha creado para la edición 2013 del Festival de Música y Arte de Coachella The Dome. Inspirada en la cúpula del Panteón de Roma, The Dome asemeja una catedral de luz, donde el visitante está inmerso en una experiencia única de luz en 360º.

The Dome funciona desde dos distintas perspectivas. Desde el interior funciona como un entorno que absorbe al visitante, mientas que desde el exterior se constituye como una escultura de gran escala. The Dome está formada por casi mil esferas de luz de LEDs que actúan a modo de pixel, creando una estructura visual con multitud de modelos y posibilidades.