Digital Sculpture at Heathrow Airport Demonstrates that Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining

Commissioned for the atrium of the brand spanking new Terminal 5 at Heathrow , Cloud is a digital carving conceive by art and design studio Troika . The five - metre structure is set aside above the escalators and consist of three layers . Find out what lies beneath the black and silver flick - dots , and see the sculpture in action mechanism below the gallery .

On top of an aluminum eubstance sit around 4,638 dots that can twist from silver to black in one quick flick . Beneath that lies two electronic drivers , 134 distribution boards and over 16,500 feet of cable . Controlling the toss - superman was harder than normal , however , and Pharos Architectural Controls , a companionship which develops electronic controllers for ignition software , had to fiddle around with the control condition parameter and rewrite firmware on the drivers .

I like the flicka - flicka noise as the Cloud interchange colour — It reminds me of the quondam - skool comer and departures boards in airports before everything go TV monitor - tastic . Terminal 5 opens on March 27 of this year , and if you ’re fly into London via BA , do n’t forget to wait up as you impinge on the down moving stairway . [ YouTubeandTroika ]