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LIGHTING PROJECTS |
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INCINERATION PLANT OF CARRIčRE-SUR-SEINE |
NARBONI, ROGER
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CITY: Carričre-sur-Seine
COUNTRY: France
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The Carričres-sur-Seine incineration plant is currently the site of an architectural integration project and is undergoing complete restructuring. One project aim was to create a specific nocturnal enhancement scheme for the main facade, completely covered in profiled glass elements, that from now on will be visible from afar.
The aim of the design team was to create a different perception of this great facade during the nighttime hours, playing on the particular optical qualities of the material, glass, in which is faced: its potential for both reflecting light and scattering it toward the interior of the building facing.
The lighting plan creates moving poetic images that recall rainwater and inversely echo the element “fire” in the incineration furnaces inside the plant. The expressions in light play in the register of water and wind: blue-green in color, the light seems to want to “placate” and to ”cool” the intense energy inside the building.
311 luminous “lines”, each 75 cm in length, in neon tube, are arranged vertically in a rigorous geometric pattern that forms a unified composition; the segments light in accordance with complex dynamic programming that varies both the intensity and the color saturation of the light produced by the tubes.
The luminous “lines” are visible from the front but also from the sides of the building, always accompanied by their reflections, since the lighting elements are installed on the outside of the glass wall.
At night, the facade becomes an ever-changing screen on which different flowing, rain-like effects appear and fade. The light show program, which repeats as a one-hour loop during the first half of the night, is designed to recreate the varied rhythms of rain: fine or heavy, downpour or drizzle; rain carried by the wind, gently or at thunderstorm intensity.
The nocturnal “rainy landscape” thus composed and visible from many perspectives takes on a unique symbolic value.
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