Géode
Géode is located in the Parc of the Villette, in the {{XIXe}} district of Paris ().
Built by the architect Adrien Fainsilber and the engineer Gerard Chamayou, it was inaugurated the May 6th 1985. Others géodes exist in France, but this one constitutes with the cupola of the Sport hall only the géode of the Paris region, since the closing of that of Defense in 2001. Although Géode opened its doors one year before the Cité of sciences and industry, it is attached to him today.
Building
Géode is located in a building separated in form from Sphère, behind the Cité of sciences and industry. The sphere 36 meters in diameter is made up of 6.433 spherical triangles out of steel equilateral which reflect the light, a little with the manner of a mirror. Its construction and its installation cost 130 franc million.Films are projected there with the format IMAX on a giant hemispherical screen of 1000 m ². It was wired for sound by Cabasse and counts twelve points of diffusion of the sound, plus four loudspeakers of infra-serious (Subwoofer) of 55 cm.
The diffused films last approximately an hour.
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