Burning Man 2018: Ingels & Lange huge shiny orb fascinates party-goers

The
orb at Burning Man festival 2018, which is held in
Nevada.
Bjarke Ingels and Jakob
Lange

• This year’s Burning Man theme was I-Robot, and two
  Danish designers caught people’s attention with a 100-foot tall
  orb on a mast.
• “The ORB” raised $34,300 on indiegogo to get it to the
  Nevada desert festival.
• Some people think it’s a disco-ball, some a planet, but
  it’s definitely become the crowd favourite at the infamous
  festival.

People at Burning Man festival in Nevada, which finishes on
Monday, are transfixed by this 100-foot high orb on a mast. 

It has an 84-foot diameter and stands an impressive 100 feet
tall, towering above the dusty venue:

Some people at the festival, running from 25 August to September
1, think the shiny sphere is a mini-planet, and
creators Bjarke Ingels and Jakob Lange from Denmark

wrote that it’s actually a 1/500,000 scale model
of earth. 

Before the festival the designers shared this virtual rendering
of the orb on
their indiegogo page:

They wanted to raise $50,000 to get the orb to Burning Man. In
the end they got $34,300, which was enough. 

This is what the finished product looked like:

Designer Lange posted the erected artwork on his Instagram:

But some are content with it being a huge disco-ball for party
goers:

“The ORB is a tribute to mother earth & human
expression – designed to easily inflate and deflate,”

said Lange. 

This year’s theme was I-Robot.