Sun Institute
Photographs by Armin Linke
Concentrator
Focal point of technological tower during an experiment
Control room
Material samples
Mirror tests
Heliostatic field
Installed on a tripod from the Sun Institute
2021–2022
Armin Linke’s anthropological gaze highlights human presence in architecture, even in the absence of people, placing ambitious scientific endeavours in a social perspective of experiments and failures, of immense collective and individual efforts, and of utopian dreams about the transformative potential of solar energy.
Six images, placed on two Sun Insitute tripods for mirror testing, reveal key elements of the complex described in the Pavilion.