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Botanical Scan
Design Museum installation, 2004
Loop.pH conceived this installation for the Design Museum atrium inspired by botanical growth. Botanical Scan creates the illusion of a three dimensional plant from a sequence of transparent layers, combining a site specific approach with our ongoing research into patterns in nature. The arrangement of leaves in Botanical Scan is based on a pattern derived from the golden ratio. Our understanding of geometry is and has been based on observing nature, on the way elements self-organize in compact, efficient forms producing everything from crystals to trees to galaxies. Here we can observe a natural intelligence that informs all matter, organic and inorganic, an intelligence that also structures the universe spatially. The patterns of natural growth often involve only one extremely well considered step applied in a recursive process. And with each iteration some of these processes define the ultimate natural balance, the golden ratio, with a growing precision. This project was supported by British manufacturers, Graham & Brown.to top
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