HHU Gebäude 29.01 – Botanischer Garten
University botanical garden crowned by a glass geodesic dome of plants from dry-summer lands.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the domed greenhouse of the Botanical Garden at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf is about the glass hemisphere itself, and a count of its triangles that refuses to come out right. It reaches back to Euclid in ancient Greece, then forward to the architects, the Darmstadt builder and the Munich mathematician who wrestled a sphere out of flat panes. Best heard standing in the middle of the dome, where you can see straight up to the top.
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