Hi-Lawn DC wanted its iconic rooftop to become the place denizens of DC come to find warmth and wonder in the winter.

NOVA Light Labs answered with a permanent 360º projection mapping installation designed to endure, season after season.

A 50 foot geodesic dome wrapped in custom visuals, a full audio package, and the long term support to keep the show running night after night.

There is nothing else like it in DC, and people cross the city and beyond to find it.

Guests climb up off the street and into a dome where light, sound, food, and drink all move together as one experience.

Visuals drift across the ceiling while a full audio package fills the space and the kitchen sends out its best.

Every sense is accounted for at once, which is what separates this from an ordinary night out.

This is the kind of destination that anchors a season. A warm, luminous room above the winter city, built to draw a crowd worth traveling for.

“My husband and I went for a date night to their new pop-up experience and it was phenomenal!

It exceeded my expectations!
The ambience, show, staff, and decor were 10/10!”

Danielle A
Guest
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True immersive 360 content, done right, with a library of custom visuals for every occasion.

NOVA designed original content for winter, spring, summer, and every event in between.

Some scenes are even mapped to the geodesic geometry of the dome, playing off every strut and facet, the hardest kind of projection mapping to pull off and the most magical when it lands.

The library reaches past ambient visuals into live concerts, televised sports, and movies on demand. A custom picture-in-picture (PiP) solution puts any content on the dome with full audio which opens infinite programming possibilities.

NOVA has refined a system design for 360º projection mapping in any dome space, at any frequency.

The studio specified a server built to drive the millions of pixels per second a full dome demands.

The system is engineered to fix to the dome itself on vibration proof mounts, leaving no footprint on the floor and all but vanishing into the structure.

NOVA delivered the full design, the documentation, and the training that lets the venue team run ticketed shows, live broadcasts, and private events on their own.