Completed in 2021
Location Mountain View, CA
Scope Designed, Engineered and Fabricated by Muse & Company
Type Art Installation
Client Google
Collaborators Dome Construction, Pacific Water Arts, Valerio Dewalt Train
Photographs by Muse & Co.
Project Summary
This kinetic sculpture is based on the idea of an orrery, a mechanical model that depicts the movements of celestial bodies. Humans have been making these devices for thousands of years – the oldest known orrery dates back to c. 125 BCE. Early orreries relied on clockwork and hand-cut gears to drive the planets around their orbits; ours uses embedded computing and digital fabrication to illustrate the complexity and interconnectedness of the Googleverse.