Constructed on the roof of the ARoS museum in Aarhus, Denmark Olafur Eliasson’s, “Your rainbow panorama,” is a circular, panoramic walkway, in all the colours of the rainbow.
The 150 meter long, circular panoramic walkway, measuring 52 metres in diameter, is supported by 12 columns resting on the weight-bearing steel construction beneath the terrace deck. During the hours of darkness, "Your rainbow panorama" is illuminated by means of lamps in the floor.
The idea of the project was to use the city and the light as a part of the visual experience, as Eliasson describes, “Think of ‘Your rainbow panorama’ as an expectation machine. Even before entering ARoS and ascending to the work, you may look upon the city as if through coloured glass. Your expected gaze. What you know from the street then emerges from above as strangely real, in a continuous interplay of colour saturation and desaturation. Suspended between the city and the sky, this viewing platform insists on your sensory engagement. You feel the view. Perhaps your memory of the art collections below, through which you just made your way, infiltrate your experience.”
Images by Ole Hein Pedersen. 2006 - 2011 Olafur Eliasson
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