Time on the Tilt

The foundation plate beneath the “pool” of holographic
light space, thickened under the tower’s feet, and the cylindrical
wall braced by the double helix ramps are made of watertight
concrete. The main structure of the Tower of Light is a
stand containing three steel tubes braced against splaying by
the cylindrical surface they bear. The same stand upholds the
structures bearing the elevators and the staircases.
1998.08.24
Architect:
Károly Polónyi
Structural design:
IPP Ingenierbüro für Bauwesen Polónyi und Partner
“Born from Light”:
a superposition recording
of the Hungarian coat
of arms
„I had built a system
of rephrasing images upon
the coherence of laser
light. A bridge came about
between mathematically
scannable, abstract spatial
networks, and the
recognisable world of
our natural environment.
It was my method of
superposition that had
outlined the peculiar,
mystical vision of
a Hungarian coat of arms
from among the billowing
light formations of networks
of interference.”
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