page_title: Monument to the Sun
section_title: Design
hierarchical_section_title: Monument to the Sun / Design
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: "Gruß an die Sonne" in Zadar. Erbaut nach Plänen des Architekt Nikola Bašić. Der Kreis misst im Durchmesser 22 Meter und besteht aus 300 begehbaren Glasplatten. Zum Sonnenuntergang erzeugt ein effektvolles Lichtspiel, das mit dem Rhythmus der Wellen und der Klänge der Meeresorgel folgt, ein wunderschönes Szenario. Im Hintergrund das Fährschiff der Jadrolinija.
context_page_description: Monument to the Sun or The Greeting to the Sun is a monument in Zadar, Croatia dedicated to the Sun. It consists of three hundred, multi-layered glass plates placed on the same level as the stone-paved waterfront. It consists of a 22-meter diameter circle, with photovoltaic solar modules underneath. Lighting elements installed in a circle turn on at night, and produce a light show. The monument, designed by Croatian architect Nikola Bašić, symbolizes communication with nature, communicates with light, while the nearby Sea organ communicates with sound.
context_section_description: The monument consists of 300 multi-layered glass plates placed on the same level with the stone-paved waterfront in the shape of a 22-meter diameter circle. Beside the main (Sun) installation, looking from the west side are similar smaller installations representing other planets of the solar system. The size of the Sun and planets are proportional, as well as the distance from the center of each plate, but the size and distance proportions are different because the planets are so far away. Beneath the glass are photovoltaic solar modules with lighting elements which turn on at night, and produce a light show.
  On the chrome ring that surrounds the photovoltaics on the Sun are inscribed the names of all of the saints after which churches on the Zadar peninsula have been named. Next to their names and their feast dates are the declination and the altitude of the Sun north or south of the equator (DEC minimum of -23 degrees to a maximum of 23 degrees), the length of the sunlight in the meridian on that day, and in that place on the waterfront, which makes this Monument kind of a calendar. This was prepared in cooperation with marine scientist Professor Maksim Klarin from Zadar Maritime School. Professor Klarin designed the light show's start and end times for 50 years starting in 2008.
caption: Monument during the night
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