Project Sundial

Project Sundial

Mountain View — November 2015

R&D doesn’t always have to be done in a secret lab. In order to highlight cutting edge digital fabrication tools, Google Robotics wanted to create an impossible object, one that couldn’t have been made any other way. The Sundial was a site specific sculpture with thousands of precisely drilled holes, projecting the exact time of day onto Charleston Park Plaza in Mountain View.

— parametric fabrication, robotics, installation, R&D

IMPOSSIBLE OBJECT

Simply input your longitude and latitude and our software can generate a perforation pattern of over 20,000 precisely drilled holes to reveal an analog reading of the time.

INFINITE Envelope

Typically bolted to the ground, this proprietary system was free to roam. Drilling parameters were sent directly to the mobile industrial robot for fabrication.

Installation