Quiet contemplation gives way to raucous laughter as unanticipated fragments of the city hove into view. Mysteriously transmitted bleeps and whoops enter the ears, mysterious in origin and delightful in novelty.

Solar Tomb is a tremulous space to spark stories - children narrating voyages to galaxies as yet undiscovered, and adults unpacking stories of shimmering experiences too soon gone. The project has been conceived by a multidisciplinary team including architects, artists, astrophysicists, cultural astronomers and tech buffs.

Solar Tomb expands our understanding of architecture and science via a reimagined observatory, a curious spatial instrument to observe terrestrial and celestial phenomena. It is envisioned after it’s time at the NGV the project would be reassembled in a rural context, the Wimmera, under the southern night sky.