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Camera Obscura

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Progetto • By balloon architekten ZT-OGOspedali

Walk-in Camera Obscura

A permanent spatial installation for the “Room of Silence” at the palliative unit of Fuerstenfeld regional hospitalThe only architectural firm to do so, balloon have been experimenting since 2012 with camera obscura modules in contemporary architectural culture.Camera obscura In terms of how it works, the camera obscura as the prototype of the photographic camera is much like the human eye, that depicts images upside down on the retina. Distinctive features in the surroundings are photographed and projected in real time through a hole in the wall, upside down and along with all changes due to incidence of light, time of day and year, onto a screen in the darkened room inside the camera obscura. Hence, this also works without the need for an... Altro