The image looks cool. But it's an inopportune time to build underground in the New York/New Jersey area.
Eric On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Robert Leguillon < [email protected]> wrote: > The technology to create a sunlit, underground, green park is complex. > Using six tubes called collimators controlled by a computer and GPS system, > the system channels natural sunlight 15 feet down through a series of > lenses and suspended reflectors, which then bounce light back onto the > anodized aluminum parabolic curve. The lens-and-curve method of light > diffusion is essentially the same as that used by the James Webb Space > telescope--“a large, infrared-optimized space telescope” that is being > developed to observe stars forming under extreme conditions. > > http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/09/meet-the-lowline.html > and > > http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670806/can-these-guys-really-pull-off-an-underground-park-in-nyc >
