Nuclear Thresholds
Dublin Core
Title
Nuclear Thresholds
Subject
As part of the 75th anniversary of Chicago Pile-1 (the site of the first man-made, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction), UChicago Arts and California-based firm Ogrydziak Prillinger Architects (OPA) present a temporary architectural installation at the location of the original pile, marked for the last fifty years by Henry Moore’s Nuclear Energy sculpture.
Description
Based on computational modeling of unstable processes, the installation creates a material threshold around Nuclear Energy that resonates at radically different scales. It invites visitors to interact physically with the shape and patterns of criticality that drove the experiment, provoking deep questions about the scientific, historical, and existential thresholds CP-1 crossed. Installation opens during the Chicago Architecture Biennial.
Creator
Ogrydziak Prillinger Architects (OPA)
Source
https://arts.uchicago.edu/public-art/special-projects/temporary-works/nuclear-thresholds
Date
September 18, 2017–January 7, 2018
Contributor
Commissioned by UChicago Arts
Format
Materials: black EPDM solid rubber cord; 241 strands, each 75 ft. long and 2 in. diameter
Outdoors at the Nuclear Energy sculpture, ~5625 S Ellis Ave
In-progress artist talk at the site on September 16, 2018
Outdoors at the Nuclear Energy sculpture, ~5625 S Ellis Ave
In-progress artist talk at the site on September 16, 2018
Collection
Citation
Ogrydziak Prillinger Architects (OPA), “Nuclear Thresholds,” Image demo site, accessed April 28, 2024, https://ucdemo.omeka.net/items/show/10.