"Carbon Dioxide" Cube Debuts in Copenhagen
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The cube sits on St. Jørgens Lake, outside the Tycho Brahe Planetarium in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Roughly the size of a three-story building, the 27-foot-by-27-foot-by-27-foot structure is composed of shipping containers. The structure sits on a custom-engineered floating platform, with a total weight of about 24 tons.
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The cube is made of 12 Titan cargo containers that will be reused after the installation is disassembled. Two sides of the cube are illuminated by LEDs.
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Two weather-proofed projectors are mounted on top of the neighboring planetarium and project artwork, news, clips, and Web content onto the cube.
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The cube is meant to represent the space that one ton of carbon dioxide, measures and stored at atmospheric pressure, would occupy; this is the amount of CO2 the average person emits each month, or in the United States, every two weeks.
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Videos from YouTube are projected onto the cube.
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The cube was designed by L.A.-based architect Christophe Cornubert and Denmark-based artist Alfio Bonanno. Travis Threlkel, creative director of Obscura Digital, also worked on the project.
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The CO2 Cube is presented by San Francisco-based Millennium ART, in partnership with the United Nations Department of Public Information, Obscura Digital, Google, and YouTube.
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