British companySurrey NanoSystemsdisrupted the color spectrum when it debutedVantablack : the darkest stilted substance ever made . The material is dark enough to immerse virtually all light wave , making 3D objects await like endless mordant voids . It was originally designed for technology , but artists and designers have embraced the unique shadowiness . Now , Dezeenreports that British architect Asif Khan has work Vantablack to the Winter Olympics .
His temporary pavilion at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games in South Korea has been dubbed the coloured building on Earth . The 33 - foot - improbable structure has been cake with Vantablack VBx2 , a version of Vantablack pigment that comes in a nebuliser can .
The building ’s side curve inward like shadowboxes . To wear up the all - consuming blackness , Khan outfitted the walls with rods . White lights at the ends of the stick produce the force of stars scattered across an sempiternal night sky .
Khan told Dezeen that the slice is meant to give “ the impression of a window cut into quad . ” He was only able to realize this sight after meet the scientists behind Vantablack . He told them he desire to habituate the colouring material to cake a building , something the paint was n’t designed for originally . Sculptor Anish Kapoor securing exclusive rights to artistic use of the people of color in 2016 further elaborate his plan . The solution was the sprayable variation : Vantablack VBx2 is structurally ( and therefore legally ) dissimilar from the original pigment and better suit for with child - scale projects .
The marquee was commissioned by Hyundai to promote their hydrogen fuel cellular telephone engineering . The space - themed outside is a nod to the atomic number 1 in stars . Inside , a snowy room filled with sprinklers is meant to represent the hydrogen plant in water .
The sphere will be open to visitors during the Winter Olympics , which give up off in Pyeongchang , South Korea on Friday , February 9 .
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