[meteorite-list] Building Inspired by Meteorites

From: John Hendry <pict_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:25:12 -0500
Message-ID: <CA264C17.E209%pict_at_pict.co.uk>

The light capturing alignment of buildings is even older than that.
Newgrange springs to mind as an obvious neolithic example (winter solstice)
http://www.ancient-wisdom.co.uk/irelandnewgrange.htm

There's also the star shafts in the great pyramid, and the stair serpent
at Chichen Itza (spring equinox). There's a lot more besides.

John



On 21/06/2011 12:52, "Matthias B?rmann" <majbaermann at web.de> wrote:

>
>That's pretty cool indeed, Jan. Is the Campo already there? I couldn't
>find
>it on the photos.
>
>Btw. such kind of light performance was well known to the anonymous
>architects of the medieval cathedrals:
>
>"One of the oldest Gothic cathedrals in France is Chartres cathedral.
>This
>cathedral is aligned to the summer solstice. On the summer solstice the
>Sun
>shines through the window of ?Saint Apollinaire? with a depiction of the
>Roman sun god Apollo and its rays fall straight on an iron nail in the
>floor
>of the cathedral."
>(see
>http://www.soulsofdistortion.nl/The%20mystery%20of%20the%20Cathedrals.html
> ,
>with photo)
>
>Best,
>Matthias
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jan Bartels" <meteorites at online.nl>
>To: "Pete Pete" <rsvp321 at hotmail.com>; "meteoritelist meteoritelist"
><meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 7:22 PM
>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Building Inspired by Meteorites
>
>
>
>Cool isn't it?
>I was asked by the owner if I could get them a 100 kilo Campo.
>This one is placed in a position in the building where the sun will shine
>through a tube like construction on the meteorite exactly on the moment
>the
>astronomical summer begins. How cool is that?
>
>Best,
>Jan
>IMCA #9833
>Holland
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Pete Pete" <rsvp321 at hotmail.com>
>To: "meteoritelist meteoritelist" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 7:14 PM
>Subject: [meteorite-list] Building Inspired by Meteorites
>
>
>
>
>http://www.dezeen.com/2011/06/21/decos-technology-group-headquarters-by-in
>bo-architects/
>
>http://www.dezeen.com/2011/06/21/decos-technology-group-headquarters-by-in
>bo-architects/
>
>
>
>"Dutch Building Looks Like It Landed on the Surface of Mars
>
>
>Sam Biddle?Architecture firms tend to use their offices as a giant
>business
>card they can work inside. Decos' is no exception?except it looks like an
>astronaut base, not a Dutch headquarters. Their inspiration? A meteorite
>impact." Snip
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