At the top of the columns a concrete-on-steel deck platform forms the oculus of the interior dome. |
The major interior space, the Potomac rotunda, balloons under a domed ceiling with an oculus, reaching a height of 120 feet. |
The oculus window will complement two large stained glass windows that have been installed in the third-floor ceiling. |
The light entering through the oculus at the top floods the space with hypnotic patterns of light and shadow. |
The oculus windows depicted in each of their two cells illuminate the figures with an otherworldly silvery light. |
Each of the upper study areas has an oculus in the floor revealing its counterpart below. |