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W3633
14.05.2011
Le déclin du jour - Berger&Berger
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  • Marché Couvert, Metz, France

 2010 City of Metz, France

 Structural Engineer : Bollinger + Grohmann (France) 

The advent of artificial light, which grew strongly during XXst century,
has gradually freed the man from the natural rhyt ...

    Marché Couvert, Metz, France

 2010 City of Metz, France

 Structural Engineer : Bollinger + Grohmann (France)

    

The advent of artificial light, which grew strongly during XXst century,
has gradually freed the man from the natural rhythms of the day and night
and allowed him to redefine the world around him. Evolution lighting technologies
- from the oil lamp to the fluorescent tube, passing through the incandescent
light bulb - has gradually lengthened our standby time, so that we can say
without exaggeration that our society "never sleeps". If the modern project was
to extend the day and its activities during the night, overnight, without interruption,
we want with this project, promptly reverse this phenomenon.
We do not postulate for the return of the pre-modern night, but rather the night
of the beginning of modernity. If the "perversion" of the natural night by artificial
light is inevitable, we want to preserve the qualities of its disparate atmospheres,
those that contemporary homogeneous over-lighting impoverishes.
This is altering the modern night by reintroducing quality that lighting systematic
cities wiped out : heterogeneity.

A "lamp" consisting of sixty four fluorescent sources, replaces the multitude
of sources that currently illuminates uniformly the square.
This public space is redefined according to the illuminance of 1500 lux under
the "lamp" to 5 lux at the end of the square.

Initially envisaged in 1762, as the Episcopal Palace, the building designed
by architect Jacques Francois Blondel became a market in 1831.
Designed to enhance the great classical portal of the cathedral of Metz,
the market, classical building, seems not be expected for a particular function.
Almost abstract architecture, religious palace - civil market, multiple successive
uses have been affected. The light source, placed asymmetrically in the length, width and height
of the square, enlighten unevenly in every way. Associated with the specific
production of "parasols", this source will increase the disparity of public space
defined by dark areas and bright areas. The "parasols" which will alternately
house a variety of diurnal uses and nocturnal uses.
Our project seeks to introduce new unexpected uses in public space.

    Marché Couvert, Metz, France

 2010 City of Metz, France

 Structural Engineer : Bollinger + Grohmann (France) 

The advent of artificial light, which grew strongly during XXst century,
has gradually freed the man from the natural rhyt ...

    Marché Couvert, Metz, France

 2010 City of Metz, France

 Structural Engineer : Bollinger + Grohmann (France)

    

The advent of artificial light, which grew strongly during XXst century,
has gradually freed the man from the natural rhythms of the day and night
and allowed him to redefine the world around him. Evolution lighting technologies
- from the oil lamp to the fluorescent tube, passing through the incandescent
light bulb - has gradually lengthened our standby time, so that we can say
without exaggeration that our society "never sleeps". If the modern project was
to extend the day and its activities during the night, overnight, without interruption,
we want with this project, promptly reverse this phenomenon.
We do not postulate for the return of the pre-modern night, but rather the night
of the beginning of modernity. If the "perversion" of the natural night by artificial
light is inevitable, we want to preserve the qualities of its disparate atmospheres,
those that contemporary homogeneous over-lighting impoverishes.
This is altering the modern night by reintroducing quality that lighting systematic
cities wiped out : heterogeneity.

A "lamp" consisting of sixty four fluorescent sources, replaces the multitude
of sources that currently illuminates uniformly the square.
This public space is redefined according to the illuminance of 1500 lux under
the "lamp" to 5 lux at the end of the square.

Initially envisaged in 1762, as the Episcopal Palace, the building designed
by architect Jacques Francois Blondel became a market in 1831.
Designed to enhance the great classical portal of the cathedral of Metz,
the market, classical building, seems not be expected for a particular function.
Almost abstract architecture, religious palace - civil market, multiple successive
uses have been affected. The light source, placed asymmetrically in the length, width and height
of the square, enlighten unevenly in every way. Associated with the specific
production of "parasols", this source will increase the disparity of public space
defined by dark areas and bright areas. The "parasols" which will alternately
house a variety of diurnal uses and nocturnal uses.
Our project seeks to introduce new unexpected uses in public space.