For this year’s Fall In… Art and Sol Festival, a major exhibition dedicated to solar art, London-based multi-disciplinary studio Loop.pH took inspiration from molecular biology and designed a structure that visually reacts to fluctuations in carbon dioxide levels.

SOL Dome consists of thousands of individually assembled cells from composite fibers, measures eight meters across and four meters high, and weighs no more than 40 kilograms. The reactive structure features a carbon dioxide sensor that prompts the solar-powered LED floodlights to change their colour in response to the surrounding atmosphere. Also, the geometric marvel is an exemplary use of kinetic energy, each fiber bent into a circle charging the LEDs like a battery.

Loop.pH explain, ” Ultimately, we have a vision for an entirely new type of architecture that responds and adapts to its environment, similarly to a plant and its surrounding ecosystem. We dream of a living architecture that photosynthesises, moves and orientates in accordance to the sun. It is an architecture whereby the inhabitants can actively participate in its shape, form and function.”

SOL Dome will be on display in Michigan through October 31st.