Osmo Inflatable planetarium designed by the London studio Loop.pH. The project featured a pneumatically-inflated cocoon…


Inflatable planetarium designed by the London studio Loop.pH.
The project featured a pneumatically-inflated cocoon fashioned from silver mylar, and its viewers could pass through the zip-up entrance and sit beneath the stars in a brilliant, all-encompassing setting.
Loop.pH projected the galaxy onto a 29-foot-high surface with lasers and based it on the actual night sky. They used this map from In the Sky, which charts 88 constellations onto a 2D rectangular map. So, the designers had the challenge of projecting something flat onto a (roughly) spherical object.