Astrid Krogh Public + Private commissions Industrial Design + Products Competitions Exhibitions Contact + Curriculum Vitae The Royal Danish Library Coloplast GN Store Nord Danish Museum of Decorative Art Danish State Railways — Tangen Vidr. Skole Trapholt Museum Maersk Data Suntiles Novo Nordisk Paustian The Danish Parliament Circle Light Malmø Kunstmuseum Næstved Kulturhus Swirl Ideal House Bergen Twinkle Danish Design Centre Frederiksberg Birkerød NRGI, Århus Kolding Kommune Birkerød Aktivitetscenter Maasland Hospital Halden Fengsel Vollsmose, Odense Gigantium, Aalborg — Brocade Flower of Life   01 02                 Project details Year: 2009 Maasland Hospital, Sittard The Netherlands 2009 Mobile 6 x 6 meter Materials: LED, aluminium, and acrylics The light comes from 19 circles, and the ornament can vary in many different patterns. In the beautiful atrium of the new hospital, Flower of Life is like a gigantic mobile that moves slowly around its own axis and interacts with the “healing architecture” of the building, as the light changes almost meditatively in the ornament. During the day, the light will change in colors and intensity, and in each circle the light can be controlled individually, bringing other patterns forward within the Flower of Life. To be around Flower of Life should be like taking a walk through nature, surrounded by changing colors, slight movements, and with a view to the sky. Hopefully, it will create a relaxing and comforting ambience for patients, visitors and people working in the hospital.” The Flower of Life is an ancient geometrical figure known to many different cultures, often as a sacred symbol, and to some a visual expression of the threads that life weaves through all human beings. It is composed of multiple evenly-spaced, overlapping circles, that are arranged so that they form a flower-like pattern with a sixfold symmetry like a hexagon. The center of each circle is on the circumference of six surrounding circles of the same diameter.