For Dutch Design Week 2017, Daan Roosegaarde presents “Space,” a 90-meter long artwork that offers a new experience of light and space at the Eindhoven train station.Daan Roosegaarde, an artist and innovator, was commissioned to make an interactive light work in the restored passenger tunnel of Eindhoven’s train station. Roosegaarde drew inspiration from his fascination for nocturnal maps of planet earth where light sources make the presence of men visible.Roosegaarde explains, “Light is communication, our language. Walking past the artwork, you experience a new dimension of light, just as an astronaut sees it in an orbit of the earth.” Roosegaarde and his team of designers worked with experts on a specialized printing technique on lenses. The illusion of depth is created through the application of this technique.In a process that lasted several months, images of the earth recorded by NASA space agency satellites were digitally edited into a composite 3D image by Studio Roosegaarde’s team. The earth is peeled like an apple to make one long, continuous strip. The strip is then made transparent and laid on the opposite pole, creating an accurate yet abstract image of earth. The controlled LED lighting allows for visitors to get an extra layer of the image’s spatiality, noted Domus. Read more