In a city with limited real estate, the Washington DC law firm expanded into their building courtyard. Views into the courtyard from the infilled offices now looked out into an 8' wide “atrium”. Almost no daylight could penetrate below the 12th floor due to the extreme narrowness of the atrium.

The Solar Light Pipe (SLP) consists of a rooftop heliostat mirror that gathers and redirects sunlight 120’ down through a prismatic glass cone tapering within a cylinder of open weave fabric. The glass refracts this light horizontally outward onto the fabric, creating a translucent, cinematic sense of the sky’s activity above. This display of light is visible from all 14 floors of the atrium offices. 140’ below the roof, the artwork terminates on the lobby floor with a flickering 10’ projection of the sun’s presence or absence, depending on atmospheric conditions.