Presentation
Focus on Atelier H. Audibert: Hervé Audibert gained his experience as a lighting designer during three decades working in the world of show business. Following several projects in France and abroad with theatre and opera directors (Heiner Müller, Jean Jourdheuil, Jean-Pierre Vincent, Bernard Sobel, Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser, Gilbert Deflo...), in the early nineties Hervé Audibert decided to broaden the scope of his activity by taking on longer term projects. To design and implement a lighting project which persists over time is a completely different business than the accomplishments of a short-lived show. Dreams and poetry have a right to be included in daily life. But dreams require delicacy and poetry requires precision if they are to be made real. Light is perfect for communicating poetry and dreams, as is reflected in Atelier H. Audibert's approach to its designs.
Presentation
Atelier H. Audibert: The staff is composed of a dynamic, driven and interdisciplinary group of individuals, each of whom brings a special sensitivity and skill to projects that the team develops togther. Atelier H. Audibert regularly calls on creative and industrial partners, depending on the nature of the projects it is assigned. Maud Perchenet - Chief Financial and Administrative Officer Maud has been trained in business management in Great Britain, and has ten years' international experience as key accounts manager in the multinational lighting industry (Philips Lighting, Osram, Traxon). Maud is Atelier H. Audibert's general and financial manager. Juliette Delattre - General Coordination/Development Manager Juliette is a Sciences Po Graduate who worked on urban development projects before joining Atelier H. Audibert. She is Studio coordinator and Development manager at Atelier H. Audibert. Juliette also supports Hervé Audibert in the design and implementation of museum lighting projects. Nina Cammelli - Project Manager Holding a Master’s degree in product design from the Ecole Supérieure d'Art et Design de Reims (Higher School of Art and Design), Nina's first experience in a lighting design agency was at Odile Soudant (Studio Lighting) before she joined Atelier H. Audibert. She supports Hervé Audibert in project design and provides technical management for plans and photometric studies. She also focuses on the design of lighting solutions and produces the technical drawings required for prototype development. Emilie Ferey - Assistant Project Manager A State Architecture Graduate of the School of Architecture Paris-Belleville, Emilie thrives in a multidisciplinary team, to which she contributes rigour and creativity. Emilie is involved in project design and the implementation phase of documents submitted during the study phase.. Daisy Raynal – Communication and External Relations Originally from the world of theatre, Daisy is thoroughly familiar with the language of lighting. She is responsible for the studio's communications and media relations.
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Intervention methodology
Atelier H. Audibert carries out study projects for lighting and monitoring of the work. Atelier H. Audibert's concentrates on design projects which do not include implementation studies or installation. Atelier H. Audibert ensures a perfect match between the result and the original light project by working closely with the client, the project management, engineering design offices, manufacturers and installers of lighting equipment. Every project is carried out taking into account the specific technical and safety priorities of the programme. Atelier H. Audibert interprets these to develop a mise en scene of the areas in the project and to give them an identity in their nocturnal environment. Particular attention is paid to the choice of materials used, on the basis of its robustness and its compatibility with the use of the spaces and buildings. Lighting sources are integrated into the building so as to be as unobtrusive as possible and are selected for their reliability and durability. Each stage of development is validated by the project management before submission to the client.
Outline of a typical project: 1 Sketch 2 APS - APD (Preliminary Design - Detailed Pre-Project) 3 PRO - DCE - ACT (Project Study - Tender Documents) 4 VISA – SUMMARY - DET - AOR (Compliance Examination - Contract Execution Management/Acceptance Assistance)
Intervention methodology
1 Sketch - Collection, integration and synthesis of parameters of architectural design, landscaping and set design - Development of global lighting solutions, definition of principles and general characteristics, type of sources recommended, type of fixtures recommended - Presentation of the various proposals for approval to the project management team and the client. Delivery of Documents - Lighting layout plan with general characteristics - Cross-section of the various principles recommended - Night perspective based on documents provided by the project management team of the different areas dealt with 2 APS - APD (Preliminary Design - Detailed Pre-Project) - Definition of the lighting principles - Definition of techniques and materials to be implemented for the different lighting principles - Installation of lighting fixtures on layout plans - Lighting calculations - Financial estimates - Power analysis Delivery of Documents Based on documents provided by the project management, compilation of a dossier containing the following: - Text description of the lighting principles including type of equipment required and how to implement the principles - Site plans of lighting fixtures by space - Lighting calculations - Power analysis - Financial estimate This phase ends following validation of the preliminary study dossier by the client.
Intervention methodology
3-1 PRO- DCE (Project Study - Tender Documents) - Text description of the lighting principles including type of equipment required and how to implement the principles - Site plans of lighting fixtures by space - Book of lighting details for the different principles used - Final power analysis - Financial estimate Submission of documents for tender procedure: Based on documents provided by the project management, compilation of a dossier containing the following: - Technical description of the selected material. - Site plans of lighting fixtures by space - A3 details books - Power analysis - Lighting calculations - Framework unit price lists - Financial estimate This phase ends following validation of the preliminary study dossier by the client. 4-1 ACT (Works Contract Assistance) Support for the client in opening bids, analysis based on the specification and the choice of the company. 4-2 VISA (Compliance Examination) Study and validation of plans drawn up by companies. 4-3 SUMMARY Coordination and technical summary. 4-3 DET / AOR (Contract Execution Management/Acceptance Assistance) - Site meetings and supervision - Acceptance of works - Support in the setting of lighting fixtures.
Technical Resources
- 2 Dell XPS 430 PCs equipped with CAD software (Autocad), DTP (Adobe Suite) and light planning software (Dialux). - 3 Mac Book Pros equipped with the Adobe Suite. - 1 Mac Book Air - 1 HP Photosmart Pro B8850 A3 Printer - 1 Brother MFC-820CW A4 Printer-Fax 1 server - 1 ADSL pro line Languages spoken at Atelier H. Audibert: English, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.
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ARCHITECTURE CURRENT PROJECTS
Le Métaphone, Oignies (62), Hérault-Arnod architects Islamic Cultures Insitute, Paris (75), Ateliers Lion & associates Marseille History Museum (13), Studio Adeline Rispal Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology, Lodève (34), Projectiles architects Museum of Fine Arts Dijon (21), Ateliers Lion & associates L’Inguimbertine, musuem-library, Carpentras (84), Atelier Novembre architects Cité de l’Economie et de la Monnaie, Paris (75), Ateliers Lion & associates Sénart Theatre (77), Atelier d’architecture Chaix & Morel and associates Estonian National Museum, Tartu, Estonia, Dorell.Ghotmeh.Tane architects Private house, Paris 11e, Moussafir architects
COMPLETED PROJECTS 2012 2012 2011 2011 2010 2009 2008 2008 2006 2006 2006 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004 2003 2002 2002 2002 2000 2000 1998 1996 1995 1992
Eléphant Paname Cultural Centre, Paris (75), Lahyani architecture Village Club Med Vialattea 4 Tridents, Pragelato (TO), Italy, Club Med Languages and Civilizations Centre (INALCO), Paris (75), Ateliers Lion & associates La Géode, Paris (75), Adrien Lambert architecture The Mobile Station, Grenoble, (38), Hérault-Arnod architects Rossignol World Headquarters, Saint-Jean-de-Moirans (38), Hérault-Arnod architects Le Centquatre, Paris (75), Atelier Novembre architects Quimper Media Library (29), Atelier Novembre architects UGC Cine Cité, Puteaux (92), Alberto Cattani architect Villa Mapelli, Lake Como, Italy, Roméo Sozzi decorator Graduate School of Architecture, Versailles (78), A. Robain et C. Guieysse architects National Centre of Dance, Pantin (93), A. Robain et C. Guieysse architects Jean-Paul Gaultier Headquarters, Paris (75), Moatti & Rivière architects UGC Ciné Cité, Rome Fiumicino, Italy, Alberto Cattani architect UGC Ciné Cité, Turin, Italy, Alberto Cattani architect UGC Ciné Cité, Algeciras, Spain, Alberto Cattani architect UGC Ciné Cité, St Quentin en Yvelines (78), Alberto Cattani architect Prestige Complex, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Oger International UGC Ciné Cité, Rimini, Italy, Alberto Cattani architect UGC Ciné Cité, Créteil (94), Alberto Cattani architect Eurotunnel company headquarters, Coquelles (62), Marc Larivière architect, Philippe Thomas landscape designer Palais des Congrès, Paris (75), Christian de Portzampac architect, Laboratoire IRB Renovation of social services, Montfermeil (93), Lab Fac architects UGC CinéCité Bercy, Paris (75), Alberto Cattani and Valode & Pistre architects UGC De Brouckere, Brussels, Belgium, Alberto Cattani architect UGC Ciné Cité Les Halles, Paris (75), Alberto Cattani architect Showroom at the Ministry of Telecommunications, Paris (75), Alberto Cattani architect
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ARCHITECTURE - suite PROJECTS DESIGNED 2010 2010 2010 2010 2007 2005 2004 2003 2002 2002 2002 2000 1995
Terminal 1, Roissy Airport (95) Premium Tower, Brussels, Belgium, Ateliers Lion & associates Theatre, Saint-Nazaire (44), K-Architecture Majunga Tower, Puteaux (92), Jean-Paul Viguier & associates Drugstore Publicis, Champs-Elysées, Paris (75) The former SNCF workshops, Arles (13), Ateliers Lion & associates L’Avaleur d’étoile, Porcheville (78) University Campus, Dunkirk (59) Haussmann Train Station, Paris (75) Calcia Silos, Paris (75) Incineration plant, Nîmes (30), Agence SCAU (Michel Macari) Séquoia Lodge Hotel, Disneyland Paris, Marne La Vallée (77) La Tour de la Terre, Bobigny (93), J.M. Henin, N. Normier, Lelièvre architects
Planning and landscaping CURRENT PROJECTS Georges Méliès Park, Orly (94), Toporama landscape architects Cité de la Méditerranée, Marseille (13), urban project development, Ateliers Lion & associates Mobipôle, Rueil-Malmaison (92), Lénack architects & planners Bruneseau Nord, Paris (75), urban project development, Ateliers Lion & associates Grand Boulevard de Lille (59), urban project development, Cap Paysages
COMPLETED PROJECTS 2013 2012 2012 2011 2000 1998
Cité de la Méditerranée, Lighting Plan, Marseille (13), Ateliers Lion & associates Le Havre town centre public spaces (76), Ateliers Lion & associates T1 tramline extension terminals, Seine-Saint-Denis (93), Ateliers Lion & associates Île Saint-Denis bridge, Seine Saint-Denis General Council (93) Rue de Roubaix and Pont de la Tossée, Tourcoing (59), Intégral Ruedi Baur & associates Port of Bonneuil-sur-Marne (94), Elisabeth Veit architect
PROJECTS DESIGNED 2007 1999
Périgueux (24), Jean-Paul Viguier & associates Ile de Nantes (44), Agence Lab Fac, Finn Geipel and Nicolas Michelin
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events COMPLETED PROJECTS 2012 Renault “the bump”stand, World Automobile Show 2012, Paris (75), Dorell.Ghotmeh. Tane architects 2005 Disney Village, Marne-la-Vallée (77) 1992 Image Wells, French Pavillion, Seville, Spain, François Seigneur set designer 1992 Avenue of Europe, Seville, Spain, Jean-Marie Hennin architect 1989 Les Tours de la Liberté, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris (75), Jean-Marie Hennin et Nicolas Normier architects
PROJECTS DESIGNED 2012 2012 2010 2010 2009 2006
Festival of Lights Lyon Festival Luz na Cidade, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Chaillot National Theatre, Paris (75), PLC architectures, Autobus-Impérial Citroën Stand, Le Gall Polianoff architecture set design Lighting of the Avenue des Champs-Elysées, Paris (75) Opening night, City of Music and Dance, Strasbourg (67)
Museography - temporary exhibitions COMPLETED PROJECTS 2012 2012 2011 2011 2010 2010 2010 2007 2005 2005 2003 2003 2002 2001
French Pavilion at the 13th Biennale of Architecture in Venice; Commissioner: Yves Lion "Michael Werner Collection", MAMVP (75), Agence Nathalie Crinière "Paris at the time of the Impressionists", Musée de la Ville de Paris (75), Renaud Piérard set design "Dogon", Quai Branly Museum, Paris (75), Projectiles set design "Paris at the time of the Impressionists", Musée de la Ville de Paris (75), Renaud Piérard set design "Que vive la Méditerranée... et sa biodiversité", the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco Renaud Piérard set design "Lenin, Stalin et la musique," Cité de la Musique, Paris (75), Projectiles set design "Perles, une histoire naturelle", Museum of Natural History, Paris (75), Jean-Jacques Bravo set design "La Sculpture du Champa", Musée Guimet, Paris (75), Renaud Piérard set design "Naissance", Musée de l’Homme, Paris (75), Pascal Payeur set design "Jimi Hendrix backstage", Cité de la Musique, Paris (75), Jean-Jacques Bravo set design "A table! L’alimentation en questions", Palais de la Découverte, Paris (75), Marianne Klapisch and Mitia Claisse set design "Maroc, mémoire de la terre", Museum of Natural History, Paris (75), Renaud Piérard set design "Les couleurs de la mer", Orsay Museum, Paris (75), Renaud Piérard set design
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Museography - museums and collections CURRENT PROJECTS
Marseille History Museum (13), Studio Adeline Rispal Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology, Lodève (34), Projectiles architects Museum of Fine Arts Dijon (21), Ateliers Lion & associates L’Inguimbertine, museum-library, Carpentras (84), Atelier Novembre architects Cité de l’Economie et de la Monnaie, Paris (75), Ateliers Lion & associates Estonian National Museum, Tartu, Estonia, Dorell.Ghotmeh.Tane architects
COMPLETED PROJECTS 2012 2012 2006 2001 1992 1990
Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris (75), Paris Museums Maison Balzac, Paris (75), Paris Museums Naval Museum, Paris (75) Oberlin Museum, Waldersbach (67), F. Jung Architect, A. Corfa Set Designer, Bruel Delmar landscape designers Environment Space, City of Science, Paris (75), Alberto Cattani architect Car Museum, Le Mans (72), Films et Formes set design
PROJECTS DESIGNED 2011 2011 2010 2009 2009 2008 2008 2005
Ingres Museum, Montauban (82), Atelier Novembre architects Odyssey 21, City of the Sea and Sustainable Development, Le Havre (76), Projectiles architects and set designers French Museum of Photography, Etiolles (91) Projectiles architects and set designers City of Water, Colombes (92), Scène, Bach Nguyen architecture La Coupole, Helfaut (62), Projectiles architects and set designers Camp des Milles Memorial, Aix-en-Provence (13) Atelier Novembre architects Le Louvre Abu Dhabi, UAE, Projectiles architects and set designers Archaeological Museum, Montferrat (38), Hérault-Arnod architects
Creations COMPLETED PROJECTS 2011 2000
Lueurs d’E, lighting design on the E tramline, Toulouse (31) Fireflies on the source of the Douix, Châtillon-sur-Seine (21), with Bernard Moninot
PROJECTS DESIGNED 2012 2009 2009 2007
Artistic contribution to cement storage in the Calcia silos - ZAC Rive Gauche, Paris (75) Objet lumière 76, ERFPS, Rouen (76) IGN (National Geography Institute), Saint-Mandé (94) Mérignac Media Library (33)13
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Design CURRENT PROJECTS
Chandeliers Museum of Fine Arts, Dijon (21) Ribbon of light, Inguimbertine, library-museum of Carpentras (84)
COMPLETED PROJECTS 2012 2011 2008 2004 2003
Mingus, series of urban street lighting poles Reading lights, BULAC, Paris (75) Hall lighting, Aubervilliers, Centquatre, Paris (75) Chandeliers, Jean-Paul Gaultier HQ, Paris (75) Prestige complex chandelier, Riyadh
PROJECTS DESIGNED 2009 2005
"Stalactites" chandeliers, Rossignol World Headquarters Chandeliers, Embassy of France, New Delhi, India
Shows COMPLETED PROJECTS - THEATRE 2010 2009 2007 2006 2006 2005 2004 2003 1997 1995 1995 1992 1991 1991 1990 1988
Le Père, Théâtre de l’Athénée, Paris (75) Werther, National Opera of the Rhine, Strasbourg (67) Pirame and Thisbe, Angers-Nantes Opera (44) La belle Hélène, National Opera of the Rhine, Strasbourg (67) Lenz, Bordeaux Opera (33) Mensch oder schwein, Saint-Gervais Theatre, Geneva, Switzerland Il Signor Bruschino, Lausanne Opera, Switzerland Avant après, Théâtre de la Colline, Paris (75) Germania III, Belém Cultural Centre, Lisbon, Portugal Comment rendre l’autre fou, Salle Benoit XII, Avignon Festival (84) La bataille d’Arminius, Amandiers Theatre, Nanterre (92) Armide, Anvers Opera, Belgium The Tempest, Avignon Festival (84) Le cas Müller, Théâtre des Carmes, Avignon Festival (84) De natura rerum, MC 93, Bobigny (93) La route des chars, MC 93, Bobigny (93)
COMPLETED PROJECTS - VARIOUS 1973-1988 : shows - Frank Zappa, Saxon, Scorpion, Crosby, Still & Nash, Véronique Sanson, Michel Sardou, Julien Clerc, Johnny Hallyday (Johnny, the Man with Laser Eyes, Pavillon de Paris 1979), Gainsbourg (Zénith, 1988).
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ARCHITECTURE - ongoing
Métaphone® Project management: Hérault-Arnod Architects Client: Henin-Carvin - MICC conurbation Location: Oignies (62), France Surface area: 1,980 m² Status: Current project Delivery planned for June 2013
Métaphone® is both a concert hall and an musical instrument, whose façades produce and broadcast sounds composed by sound designer Louis Dandrel. The skin of the building, consisting of scales of various materials (Corten steel panes, larch panels, transparent and frosted glass), is the medium for a sound and light animation that will give life to the concert instrument while hosting events and also when the building is asleep.
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ARCHITECTURE - ongoing
Institut des cultures d’Islam Islamic Cultures Institute
Project management: Ateliers Lion & associates Client: Paris City Council Location: Paris (75), France Surface area: 5,900 m² Status: Current project Delivery expected in 2014
The contribution of light in this universe must be meaningful and true both for the religious and visitors, with no ostentation. We were inspired by the iconic sites of Islamic culture from which we extracted ideas and refashioned them for a contemporary space.
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ARCHITECTURE - ongoing
Théâtre de Sénart Sénart Theatre
Project management: Chaix & Morel et associés Client: SAN de Sénart (Sénart New Town) Location: Sénart (77), France Surface area: 10,580 m² Status: Current project Delivery expected in 2015
Atelier H. Audibert worked on the lobby and walls of the theatre, which will host the Theatre of Sénart (part of the National Performance Network). The hall lighting was designed using the image of a theatre stage and fixtures were also provided to light up the visitors. The theatre envelope, consisting of perforated metal cladding, is illuminated from within. At night, the theatre's face changes, as though the light sources were revealing its full intimacy.
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ARCHITECTURE - completed projects
Centre Elephant Paname Project management: Lahyani Architectes Client: SCI Volney Location: Paris (75), France Surface area: 2 x 500 m2 Status: delivered in September 2012 ÉlÊphant Paname is a new dance and arts centre, located between place Vendôme and OpÊra. Housed in a mansion built during the time of Napoleon III by the Russian ambassador to France, the building later became the headquarters of a Parisian bank. Atelier H. Audibert provided the lighting for the building’s galleries, decorated in Second Empire style. To highlight Elephant Paname’s showpiece, a 250 m2 area under a glass tiled monumental dome, Atelier H. Audibert developed a solution to transform the vault into a screen for projecting video animations in partnership with Herman Ter Hennepe (Maramoja projects) and Solico. The dome is lined with a self-supporting carbon-epoxy structure 13m in diameter, covered with 9000-W LED RGB spots individually operated by DMX. The screen resolution is 72 PPI. %HWZHHQ OLJKW DQG SLFWXUH
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ARCHITECTURE - completed projects
Village Club Med Vialattea - 4 Tridents Project management and Client: Club Med Location: Pragelato, (TO), Italy Surface area: 5 ha Status: delivered in December 2012
Club Med commissioned Atelier H. Audibert to design the lighting of the outdoor spaces of Pragelato Vialattea Village, on the site that hosted the Turin Winter Olympics in 2006. Our approach was based on a mise en scene of the village as a whole, in which each element of the decor was given its own individual lighting treatment: the wooden chalet fronts, the snow-covered areas or the summer greenery, walkways... Each of the project areas was treated like a screen for the projection of light forms that change depending on the time of day and the season. The lighting enhances the fairytale atmosphere of the village.
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ARCHITECTURE - completed projects
Pテエle des Langues et des Civilisations Languages and Civilizations Centre
Project management: Ateliers Lion & associates Client: テ四e-de-France Regional Council Location: Paris (75), France Status: delivered in September 2011
Located in the heart of the ZAC Rive Gauche, Paris, a district undergoing great change, the Oriental Languages and Civilizations Centre brings together the National Institute of Oriental Languagesand Civilizations (INALCO) and a library (BULAC).Atelier H. Audibert designed the lighting for all areas inside the building: library, lecture halls, classrooms and meeting rooms, offices and common areas. Hervテゥ Audibert also designed the reading lamps for the library
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ARCHITECTURE - completed projects
La Géode Project management: Adrien Lambert architectures Client: SEM La Géode & Soferest Location: Paris (75), France Surface area: 500 m² Status: delivered in 2011
For its 25th anniversary, the Geode reorganized its reception areas. Atelier H. Audibert provided the lighting for all areas of the architectural design. The translucent walls of the lobby, studded with hundreds of animated LEDs transform the space into a milky way.
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ARCHITECTURE - completed projects
La Station mobile de Grenoble (centralised multimodal travel management building) Project management: Hérault Arnod Architects Client: La Métro - Grenoble Alpes Métropole Location: Grenoble (38), France Surface area: 2,672 m² Status: Delivered in September 2010
Mobile Station has been designed to accommodate travel management services in Grenoble. The building’s structure is punctuated by large door overhangs, coated in aluminium discs over the entire height of the façades. Together they form a pixel array, echoing the screens in traffic control centres. At night, the facades are animated by choreographed lighting, evoking urban traffic flows. A program changes the colour and intensity of the LED light bulbs concealed behind the aluminium discs.
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ARCHITECTURE - completed projects
Rossignol World Headquarters Project management: Hérault-Arnod Architects Client: Rossignol Skis SAS Location: Saint-Jean-de-Moirans (38), France Surface area: 11,600 m² Status: delivered in June 2009
Located in the middle of a plain surrounded by mountains, the headquarters of the world leader in skiing equipment was designed using the image of a snowdrift. Atelier H. Audibert provided the lighting for the curved roof of the building, which seems to be bathed in artificial lunar light. To light up the internal street, which traverses the building from side to side, Hervé Audibert designed chandeliers which evoke the shape of stalactites.
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ARCHITECTURE - completed projects
Le Centquatre
Artistic Etablishment of the City of Paris Project management: Atelier Novembre architects Client: Paris City Council, Directorate of Cultural Affairs Location: Paris (75), France Surface area: 41,000 m² Status: delivered in July 2008
The original walls housed the City of Paris funeral director’s service from 1873. Following the final closure of the municipal services, renovation work was carried out to transform the building, characteristic of the industrial architecture of the nineteenth century, into a centre for artistic creation. Memory of the site should continue to exist, but not too obviously. Atelier H. Audibert managed the lighting for all areas of the building and designed the neon lights in the Aubervilliers hall.
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ARCHITECTURE - completed projects
Quimper Media Library Project management: Atelier Novembre architects Client: Quimper conurbation Location: Quimper (29), France Surface area: 6,500 m² Status: delivered in February 2008
The Media Library’s original building, a convent registered as a historical monument, has undergone comprehensive renovation and extension. The glass pane grafted onto the facility’s access façade was lit up to look like an X-ray scan with LED strips concealed behind the glass cladding. At night, the translucent surface reveals the filigree metal structure.
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ARCHITECTURE - completed projects
Centre National de la Danse winning project in the Prix Equerre d’Argent 2004 Project management: Atelier Robain Guieysse. Client: Ministry of Culture and Communication Location: Pantin (93), France Surface area: 8,980 m² Status: delivered in October 2004
Hervé Audibert decided to light the façades of the building from the inside, by assigning a colourful glow to each room. At nightfall, the building gives the impression of releasing the light energy accumulated during the day.
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ARCHITECTURE - completed projects
Jean-Paul Gaultier Headquarters Project management: Moatti & Rivière architects Client: Jean-Paul Gaultier Group Location: Paris (75), France Surface area: 5,000 m² Status: delivered in 2004
Jean-Paul Gautier set up its new headquarters within the walls of the Palais des Arts de L’Avenir du prolétariat, a place steeped in history, located on the rue Saint Martin in Paris. The layout of the space and the lighting highlighted the rococo style of the designer. The light sources were hidden in the vaults of the show hall , as in the decoration of a theatre stage set. A Venetian inspired hanging chandelier was custom designed by Hervé Audibert.
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ARCHITECTURE - completed projects
UGC Ciné Cité Bercy Project management: Alberto Cattani architect ; Valode & Pistre architects Client: UGC Location: Paris (75), France Status: delivered in 1998
After defining the UGC group’s lighting identity based on the the primary colours blue, yellow, and red, Atelier H. Audibert developed the design for each of the UGC complexes in which it was involved (Créteil, Saint Quentin en Yvelines, Les Halles, Puteaux, Brussels, Rimini, Turin, Rome and Algeciras).
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ARCHITECTURE - completed projects
Prestige complex, Riyadh Project management: Oger International Client: Saudi Oger Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Surface area: 17 km² Status: delivered in 2003
This site 17 km² brings together a reproduction of the Alhambra in Granada, a prestigious reception area (the Diwan), a central square the size of the Place de la Concorde, the residence of the Queen of Saudi Arabia and her private clinic and a replica of Hyde Park with its lake and horse track. Atelier H. Audibert designed the lighting for all these areas, in agreement with the client, and worked for three years on the project, at the rate of one week per month on site. The lighting of the Alhambra had to be fully imagined, as there was no artificial light on the historic site. This issue was important because in Saudi Arabia, living spaces come alive in the evening, once the heat of the day has subsided. The lighting project focused on the monumental character of the places: four thousand projectors were installed in the Alhambra alone, which is equal to the lighting of a town of 40,000 inhabitants. For the Ambassadors Room, Hervé Audibert designed chandeliers 15 meters in diameter. In the gardens of the Generalife, the play of light was hidden at the foot of the areas of vegetation and in the water courses to reveal their magic.
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ARCHITECTURE - ideas
Saint-Nazaire Theatre Project management: K-Architecture ; L’Autobus Impérial signalétique Client: SONADEV for the Saint-Nazaire council Location: Saint-Nazaire (44), France Surface area: 4,500 m² Date of design of the project: 2010
To illuminate the facade of the theatre, Atelier H. Audibert imagined fireflies (cones of light in frosted PMMA containing the LED light bulbs), fluttering over the walls and converging to form the word theatre.
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ARCHITECTURE - ideas
Incineration plant, Nîmes Project management: Nimes City Council Client: SCAU Agency - Michel Macari Location: Nîmes (30), France Date of design of the project: 2002
The size of the factory suggested a huge ship, or the Castle of Tachycardia in Paul Grimault’s film “The King and the Mockingbird”. A vertical city built on a plain... Atelier H. Audibert therefore designed windows using neon tubes of different colours to create the impression of an inhabited space.
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ARCHITECTURE - ideas
SeĚ quoia Lodge Hotel, Disneyland Paris Client: Disneyland Paris Location: Disneyland Paris, Marne La VallĂŠe (77), France Date of design of the project: 2000
The front of the hotel needed to be illuminated without disturbing the guests in their rooms. Atelier H. Audibert used several giant slide projectors, designed for outdoor use. In our project, the projections targeted the spaces between the windows, so they did not enter the rooms. The light was designed to create artificial shadows on the wood and so as to recreate the wooden slats of a chalet.
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La Tour de la Terre The Earth Tower
Project management: Hennin Normier Lelièvre architectes Location: Bobigny (93), France Date of design of the project: 1995
The Tower was designed by Nicolas Normier and Jean-Marie Hennin, who had already commissioned Hervé Audibert to provide the lighting for the Tours de la Liberté installed at the Tuileries for the Bicentennial of the French Revolution (1989) . This wooden structure, 200 metres high, was designed to host environmental organizations, including the Nicolas Hulot Foundation, in a cabin suspended 100 metres above the ground. At night, the titanium corolla crowning the building would have been lit up by a ball of fire, designed to spread light energy all around.
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Parc Georges Méliès Georges Méliès Park
Project management: Toporama landscaping Client: Orly City Council Location: Orly (94), France Surface area: 54,150 m² Status: Preliminary design phase Study phase planned to end in June 2013 With its castle surrounded by a pond, its waterfalls and lush vegetation, the Méliès park is everything an English garden should be. It was here that the filmmaker Georges Méliès, who gave his name to the park, lived his last years. The restoration of the park is part of the revitalization project for the old centre of Orly. The lighting used in the different areas of the park is designed to create the atmosphere of a film set. The lighting of the pedestrian areas will be supplemented by light local events that will bring “depth of field” to the landscape heritage and some of the buildings. The unusual orientation of the light sources, the play of contrasts, will surprise the visitor who will discover the illuminated elements (the castle, a stand of trees or a gateway) when they least expect it.
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Mobipôle, Reuil-Malmaison Project management: Lénack architectes urbanistes Client: SPLA Rueil Aménagement Location: Reuil Malmaison (92), France Surface area: external layout 20 000 m² ; parking, 10 000 m² Status: Study phase Delivery planned for 2015
Atelier H. Audibert designed the lighting for the Rueil multimodal transport hub, where the RER (Regional Express Trains), 18 bus stops, motorists, cyclists and pedestrians all converge. The modernization of the station and its infrastructure is part of a larger urban development project: the transport hub will be surrounded by new shops and services and a public park. The different lighting principles of each area treated were established to ensure the visual comfort and safety of the different users.
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ZAC Cité de la Méditerranée, Marseille (Urban Development Project)
Project management: Ateliers Lion & associates Client: Euroméditerranée public planning organization Location: Marseille (13), France Total Surface area: 60 ha Status: site phase. Final Completion of works in Spring 2014
Atelier H. Audibert has been working since 2010 on the ZAC Cité de la Méditerranée in Marseille, an urban development project which involves the transformation of about 3km of the Mediterranean city’s seafront from Fort Saint John to the Arenc silos. We designed the lighting of the public spaces linked by the Boulevard du Littoral: the Louis Brauquier promenade at the foot of Fort St. John, the J4 esplanade, Place Basse de la Major, Place de la Méditerranée and the Vaudoyer garden. EPA Euroméditerranée also commissioned us to provide consultation on the harmonization of the lighting projects of the buildings and the public spaces located in the ZAC’s area of influence.
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Légende
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Mât de 4 mètres Mât de 8 mètres
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ZAC Rive Gauche, Quartier Bruneseau Nord (urban development project)
Project management: Ateliers Lion & associates Client: SEMAPA Location: Paris (75), France Surface area: 11 ha Status: AVP phase Delivery expected in 2022
Atelier H. Audibert has been commissioned to design the lighting of a new neighbourhood on a site marked by the presence of the ring road interchange. By 2022, more than 500,000 m2 of offices, accommodation, shops and activities will be in place on the site. We have proposed the establishment of a set of street lights designed by Hervé Audibert for the City of Le Havre (“Mingus” manufactured by Santa and Cole). The warm soft lighting diffused by the masts gives a domestic feel to the space, so that passers-by feel fully at ease in the public spaces, and reclaim the streets.
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Esplanade de la plage
Place de l’Hôtel de ville
Planning and landscaping - achievements
Le Havre city-centre (urban development project)
Project management: Ateliers Lion & associates Client: Le Havre City Council Location: Le Havre (76), France Surface area: 11.5 ha Status: delivered in December 2012
The arrival of the tram at Le Havre was accompanied by the redevelopment of the city centre, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2005. To light up the public spaces through which the tramline passes, Atelier H. Audibert designed a series of lamp posts to provide the line with the architectural style of Auguste Perret - characterized by clean lines and lack of ornamentation. The lamp posts comprise three separate and adjustable LED light sources, respectively illuminating the roads, pedestrian routes and vegetation. The lighting intensity of the different sources is variable and adjustable independently in order to save energy.
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Planning and landscaping - achievements
テ四e-Saint-Denis bridge Project management: Ateliers Lion & associates Client: CG93 Location: テ四e-Saint-Denis (93) Status: inauguration in December 2012
As an extension of the route of tram line 1 the テ四e-Saint-Denis bridge has undergone improvement and restoration work. The lighting, designed by Atelier H. Audibert frames the work in the night-time urban environment. Different lighting scenarios, managed by DMX, will adorn the metal structure with a coloured glow that moves imperceptibly throughout the night. The lighting scenography, reflected in the Seine, offers passers-by a poetic image of the bridge that is completely different from its daily appearance.
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Port of Bonneuil-sur-Marne Project management: Elisabeth Veit architect Client: Port of Paris Location: Bonneuil-sur-Marne (94), France Status: Delivered in 1998
The central basin of the Bonneuil port is bordered by hangars that were used to store goods brought by barge along the Marne. The project manager insisted that the presence of the water be taken into account for the illumination of the hangars. We therefore used a technique derived from stage lighting to reproduce the movement of water on the walls of buildings. Pellets oscillating in stainless steel, set on reflectors, cast reflections onto the walls, evoking the rippling of the water. The effects of the light change with the strength of the wind on the water.
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events - achievements
New Renault stand design -“The Bump” Project management: Dorell.Ghotmeh.Tane architectes Client: Renault Location: World Automobile Show 2012, Paris (75), France Surface area: 4312 m² Status: Project completed in September 2012
Atelier H. Audibert and DGT architects were selected by Renault to design the new concept for the brand’s stand, following a tender process launched in 2010. Hervé Audibert regularly uses coloured lighting and has decided to introduce it to the world of the car show, which is usually dominated by cold colours. The difficulty of this challenge was to faithfully reproduce the colour of the vehicles in a scalable light staging. The entire stand area - 4000 m² at the Paris World Automobile Show - was bathed in coloured light using 600 A12 LED motorised light projectors. The vehicles on display were “extracted” from the atmosphere using 400 white motorised Ayrton LED light projectors (7000 K). To complete the effect, Atelier H. Audibert designed an undulating ceiling of 400 luminous motorized balloons in RGB. The Life Light company developed the programming for this project of unprecedented size in the 32 DMX universe. The alternation between the colours emitted by the balloons was designed to echo the different moods of the animated film loop projected onto HD screens forming the walls of the stand, 80 m long.
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Disney Village Client: Disneyland Paris Location: Disneyland Paris, Marne La VallĂŠe (77), France Surface area: 1 km Status: Project completed in 2005
The aim was to rethink the lighting of the main shopping street of the Disney Village. The starry sky stretched above the street was to be removed, and playful lighting was to be designed as a replacement. We were inspired by the shape of the captive balloon tied above the Disney Lake for these illuminated coloured balloons that bathe the street in a warm soft light.
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Avenue of Europe, Universal Exhibition of Seville in 1992 Project management: Jean-Marie Hennin and Nicolas Normier architects Client: EEC (European Economic Community) Location: Seville, Spain Surface area: 2 km Status: project completed in 1992
Expo 92 was held from April to October 1992 in Seville. The fixtures were to take account of the sometimes extreme climatic conditions of the region. The Avenue of Europe was marked by twelve towers representing the member states of the European Community. To protect the visitors from the heat the Avenue was covered with a perforated textile structure of 9000 m2, reminiscent of the canvas stretched over the stalls of souks or of Berber tents. HervĂŠ Audibert chose to provide the lighting for the textile structure using projectors installed at the foot of the towers. The illuminated vault was reflected in the central lake, multiplying the overall lighting effect.
events - achievements
Les Tours de la LibertĂŠ The Liberty Towers
Project management: Jean-Marie Hennin and Nicolas Normier architects Client: Committee for the Bicentennial of the French Revolution Location: Jardin des Tuileries, Paris (75), France Surface area: Towers 200 m high. At 100 metres there is a 4500 m2 belvedere (halls and exhibition spaces), which can accommodate up to 800 visitors at a time. Status: Project completed in 1989
The two towers were built in the Jardin des Tuileries to celebrate the Bicentenary of the French Revolution in 1989. 200 metres high, flanked by wings, the towers resemble great white metal birds ready to take flight. The lighting of the towers focused on the wings, so as to accentuate the impression of imminent ascent into the night sky.
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Fête des Lumières de Lyon 2012 Festival of Lights Lyon 2012
Client: Lyon City Council Location: Regional Hall, Lyon (69), France Date of design of the project: 2012
For the Festival of Lights, Atelier H. Audibert designed a nocturnal multimedia creation on the Regional Council Building, located in the new Confluence district. This installation of lights, video projections and sounds aimed to reveal the fascination of the emergence of the new Regional Council. A cloud of steam (formed using 2160 using diffusers distributed throughout a series of ramps offset from the building) would bathe the north-western edge of the building in a thick fog, which would gradually dissipate. The building would then emerge like a butterfly from its chrysalis, its epidermis studded with synthetic images (projected by devices installed inside and outside the building). The pixelation would be increased gradually to reveal the structure of the building, as with an X-ray scan. The show was to last 5 to 7 minutes and would be repeated several times during the evening, accompanied by a musical composition.
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Chaillot National Theatre Project management: PLC-Architecture ; L’Autobus Impérial signalétique Client: Chaillot National Theatre Location: Paris (75), France Date of design of the project: 2010 Winning project of the competition, abandoned following a change in the theatre's management.
The purpose of the contest was to devise simple and cheap solutions for addressing the theatre’s lighting deficit and to rethink the original signage. We designed lightweight, mobile and flexible structures, that were both luminous objects and signage media, evoking giant Japanese lanterns (5 m high and 3 m wide). Each structure was illuminated by a light source concealed in its upper part, while the lower part of the structure could be converted into a sales counter, a cloakroom etc...
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Citroën stand Project management: Le Gall Polianoff architecture and set design; Beth Clapperton Public Events Client: Citroën Surface area: 3,000 m² Date of design of the project: 2010 Finalist in the competition.
The staging designed by Beth Clapperton, the project’s artistic director, used cosmology to tell the story of the appearance of the Citroen car. A Theatre of the Big Bang, the stand would be ravaged by wind, rain and lightning. Particular attention was paid to the suspended ceiling, often overlooked in the design of automobile stands. We imagined transforming the ceiling into a multitude of video screens. Projectors placed over awnings projected atmospheric images, echoing the natural forces unleashed onto the stand area. Other projectors, hanging on the edges of the awning, lit up the cars. Hervé Audibert had also designed an enclosure of fireproof paper, of beautiful embossed material, backlit by LED strips.
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Lighting of the Avenue des Champs-Elysées Client: Champs-Elysées committee Location: Paris (75), France Surface area: 1.9 km Date of design of the project: 2009
The competition was for the Christmas lights on the Champs-Elysées. Our project was based on the principle of urban anamorphosis. We imagined illuminating roads and decorating the 400 trees that punctuate Avenue with colourful LED strips. From the Concorde or the Etoile, the eye would reconstitute the light ribbons, trimmings like enormous lace embroidery on either side of the avenue.
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City of Music and Dance Inaugural nights Client: City of Dance Strasbourg Location: Strasbourg (67), France Surface area: 14,079 m² Date of design of the project: 2006
The inauguration of the Strasbourg City of Music and Dance had to create the event. Atelier H. Audibert imagined it on a grand scale: to kick off, 10,000 water diffusers installed in the building would envelop it in a thick fog, which would then gradually dissipate. The building would emerge like a butterfly from a chrysalis, its skin a constellation of moving images. The pixelation would gradually increase to reveal the structure of the building. The show, lasting 30 minutes, was to be accompanied by a contemporary musical composition.
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museography - Temporary exhibitions - achievements
French Pavilion, Venice Biennale Curator of the exhibition: Yves Lion Location: Giardini, Venise Date: 29 August to 25 November 25
Invited to break down the theme “Common Ground” proposed by the British architect David Chipperfield, Director of the Architecture Biennale in 2012, for the French pavilion Yves Lion chose to tackle the issue of urban neighbourhoods in the vast suburbs of social housing developments. The exhibition presents potential developments for the eastern area of Paris, located between Marne-la-Vallée and Aulnay-sous-Bois. This prospecting exercise, involving teachers and students of the School of Architecture in Marne-la-Vallée, led to the development of a monumental device of three models on a total surface area of 84 m². Atelier H. Audibert chose to backlight the models, arranged in the central area of the Pavilion, using fluorescent tubes concealed within light boxes. The room exhibiting student projects was lit up as a classroom, thanks to fluorescent sources releasing a bright light.
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Dogon Set design: Projectiles Location: 2011 "Dogon", Quai Branly Museum, Paris Date: April - July 2011
The light had to highlight the Dogon sculptures. Along with Projectiles, we chose to use the height of the walls (about 6m to the ceilings) and completely hide the input lights to create a controlled bright atmosphere. To put this idea into effect, we hung a rear projection fabric screen on the walls of the room, about 200 metres long, with fluorescent strips coated with colour filters arranged behind it. The sculptures were illuminated using playout machines placed on a carrying structure on the ceiling.
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Que vive la méditerranée...et sa biodiversité Long live the Mediterranean ... and its biodiversity Set design: Renaud Piérard Location: Oceanographic Museum, Monaco Date: Nov. 2010 - April 2011
The aim was to recreate a maritime atmosphere in one of the museum’s rooms. To do so, the openings were completely concealed, and a neon tube was designed to match the shape of the cyclorama suspended from the ceiling. Neon light therefore evenly illuminated the structure and the ceiling, while bathing the room in a bluish glow. The sculptures were illuminated using playout machines placed on a carrying structure on the ceiling.
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Jimi Hendrix backstage Set design: Jean-Jacques Bravo, Marianne Klapisch and Mitia Claisse Location: City of Music, Paris (75), France Date: Oct. 2002 - Janv. 2003
The exhibition featured guitars, costumes and other objects that belonged to Jimi Hendrix. The display was punctuated by light environments, each corresponding to one theme: the “Pink” sequence was associated with Hendrix’s family background and music, “Blue” for his concerts and “Purple” for the recording of his albums.
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A table ! L’Alimentation en questions Dinner Time! Food issues
Set design: Marianne Klapisch and Mitia Claisse Location: Palais de la DĂŠcouverte, Paris (75016), France Date: April - Dec. 2003
This exhibition presented an exploration of different facets of food. The lighting of the rooms was designed to reflect the exhibition themes. For example, we lit a large space reserved for the food industry using very cold light to look like a factory.
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museography - Museums and collections - ongoing
Cité de l’Economie et de la Monnaie Economics and money museum
Project management: Ateliers Lion & associates Client: Bank of France Location: Paris (75), France Surface area: 6,600 m² Status: DCE Phase. Delivery scheduled for summer 2015
A private mansion built in the neo-Gothic style by a banker to house his art collections, the building was transformed into a branch of the Bank of France in the 1920s and is now getting ready to host the museum of the economy, the only one of its type in France. The architectural design of the future museum seeks to reveal the composite nature of this historical monument. The ambient lighting of the museum display will be soft, so as not to saturate the spaces with their arches, intricately carved fireplaces and brick facing. The general public will also discover the bank's vault, surrounded by a moat, with water reflecting on the walls thanks to a play of light. In addition to providing the lighting for the collections, Atelier H. Audibert was commissioned to design the lighting for the meeting room, the lecture theatre and the cafe.
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Lodève Museum Project management: Projectiles architects and set designers Client: Lodévois and Larzac Communauté de Communes Location: Lodève (34), France Surface area: 3015 m² Status: Study phase
Housed in a former private mansion dating from the sixteenth century, which has been renovated several times, the Lodève museum presents archaeological and medieval collections and a section devoted to the fine arts. The museum extension project offers a dialogue between historical and contemporary architecture, by creating a new entrance. The Projectiles agency commissioned Atelier H. Audibert to provide the lighting for all the museum spaces and shared works areas.
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Marseille History Museum Project management: Roland Carta C+T ; LĂŠon Grosse Client: Marseille City Council Location: Marseille (13), France Surface area: 8 000 m2 Status: Current project Delivery planned for September 2013
Located on the archaeological site of the Jardin des Vestiges, discovered in the sixties at the time of construction of the Stock Exchange Centre, the Marseille History Museum is currently undergoing extension and restructuring as part of a project for Marseille Provence 2013, European Capital of Culture. Designed by Studio Adeline Rispal, the new museographical project will trace the history of the Mediterranean city from prehistorical times to the present day, by following the golden thread of navigation.. Eventually, the Marseille Museum of History will be the world's leading museum of ancient history. Atelier H. Audibert provided the lighting for the whole museum display. We were very excited to illuminate the most important maritime wreck of the ancient world (dating from the early third century AD), one of the jewels of the collection.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Dijon Project management: Ateliers Lion & associates Client: Dijon City Council Location: Dijon (21), France Surface area: 13.000 m2 on three sites Status: First tranche under construction. Launch of the second tranche studies in March 2013. Final completion of works in 2018
Housed in the old palace of the Dukes of Burgundy, along with the Louvre, the Dijon Museum is the only French museum to be housed in a palace. Its renovation by Ateliers Lion in 2005, sought to organize three museum routes in the buildings surrounding the Bar courtyard. Atelier H. Audibert provided the lighting for the entire museum and for the shared works areas. HervĂŠ Audibert also designed chandeliers to provide lighting for the two staircases of the palace of the Dukes.
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Estonian National Museum Project management: Dorell.Ghotmeh.Tane Architectes Client: Estonian Ministry of Culture Location: Tartu, Estonia Surface area: 34,000 m² Status: site phase. Delivery expected in 2015
A year after joining the European Union, Estonia launched an international competition to design a national museum to trace the history of a people who had been particularly abused by totalitarian regimes. Agence DGT won the competition by proposing to establish the museum in an extension of a runway dating back to the Soviet occupation. We wanted to highlight the diaphanous appearance of the building: at night, its vast glass walls give off a cosmic glow, thanks to LEDs hidden behind the façades. For the lighting of the indoor spaces, large translucent volumes, we chose warm light. In the library, the shop and restaurant, a forest of small LED lights suspended from rods 5 metres long will artificially recreate a human scale ceiling.
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Odyssey 21 City of the Sea and Sustainable Development Project management: Projectiles architects and set designers Client: Le Havre City Council Surface area: 2,800 m² Location: Le Havre (76) Date of design of the project: 2011
We won the competition for the set design of the museum designed by the Jean Nouvel Agency. Dedicated to the major maritime and port issues of the twenty-first century, a 120 metre tower was to stand guard over the city, the harbour and the estuary. Atelier H. Audibert designed the lighting for all of the exhibition areas. One of the rooms was a constellation of LED lights mounted on rods of different lengths, reproducing the movement of the waves. Light ambiances associated with daily weather forecasts were to be issued from the huge glass platform situated at the top of the tower.
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The Abu Dhabi Louvre Project management: Projectiles architects and set designers Client: France MusÊe Surface area: 6,000m² Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE Date of design of the project: 2008
The Projectiles agency formed a team including Atelier H. Audibert to present a bid for the competition for the Abu Dhabi Louvre. Designed by Agence Jean Nouvel, the building evokes an island protected by a perforated umbrella, which allows spangles of light to shine through. In our bid, the exhibition space was lit by wells of natural light. At night, the light of the sky is recreated by overhead projectors hidden above the openings. No light source should be visible in order to preserve the magic of the spaces.
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Lueurs d’E
Permanent Lighting Project - E tramline, Toulouse 1%-for-Public Art Programme Client: S.M.A.T (Toulouse Metro Company) Surface area: 11 km Location: Toulouse (31), France Status: creation implemented in 2011
An artistic order was issued on the occasion of the creation of the first tramline in Toulouse. Hervé Audibert created a twelve kilometres garland of fireflies that glow as the tram passes.Hervé Audibert chose to work on the route rather than at the tram stations: the dance of the fireflies accompanies travellers waiting for the next stop.
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Calcia Silos 1%-for-Public Art Programme Client: SEMAPA (mixed economy company) Location: ZAC Paris Rive Gauche, France Date of design of the project: 2012 Finalist project
SEMAPA, the company managing the coordination of the urban development project of the Paris Rive Gauche urban development project, has launched a tender for the creation of an artistic intervention on the silos of a new industrial plant for cement storage. Atelier H. Audibert's project, a finalist in the bid competition, aimed to transform the two future silos into inhabited towers, by installing "windows" materialized by clusters of LED light points, distributed over the entire concrete wall height (38m). The whole would form a generic image of the contemporary city, visible day and night.
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IGN 1%-for-Public Art Programme Client: IGN (National Geography Institute) Location: Saint-MandĂŠ (94), France Date of design of the project: 2009
Walkways revealed by the glass skin of the building brought to mind the contours used in maps. We imagined equipping the bottom of the walkways with LED garlands. Looking up, the visitor at the entrance of the building would reconstruct an overall picture evoking the fleeting movement of the clouds. Light sources would slide along the glass wall of the building, like drops of light entering the lobby. Each drop would have increased the light intensity of the hall.
Creations - ideas
Mérignac Media Library 1%-for-Public Art Programme Client: Mérignac Town Council Location: Mérignac (33), France Date of design of the project: 2009
The artistic work focused on the new Merignac Media Library, Gironde, located in the old town hall. Our project was based on the principle of urban anamorphosis. 50 small video screens hanging in the lobby would have formed an overall image visible from a single point of convergence.
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L’Avaleur d’étoiles The Swallower of Stars
Client: EDF Location: Porcheville (78), France Surface area: 120 ha Date of design of the project: 2004
EDF commissioned the creation of a work of art on a heat production plant, located along the Seine upstream of Mantes-la-Jolie. Atelier H. Audibert transformed the chimneys of the factory, which are 200 metres high, into a star vacuum cleaner. The light installation was similar to a metaphorical digestion - the energy of the stars would be absorbed by the EDF plant. In our project, the images projected onto the glass surfaces of the façades would represent the turbulence of the stars being sucked in and consumed, represented by light sources placed on the chimneys. Video projectors, located inside the building, would broadcast continuous animations.
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Design - ongoing
Chandeliers of the Museum of Fine Arts, Dijon Project management: Ateliers Lion & associates Client: Dijon City Council Location: Dijon (21), France Surface area: 13.000 m2 on three sites Status: prototyping. Delivery expected in September 2013
This chandelier was designed to provide lighting for the two staircases of the Palace of the Dukes, which houses the Museum of Fine Arts in Dijon. The chandelier was designed as a contemporary element to clash with the historic building through which one of the museum's routes passes. It is made of fluorescent tubes and its light evokes a shower of arrows of light.
Design - achievements
Mingus, urban street lighting Client: Le Havre City Council Manufacture: InĂŠdit Lighting ; Santa and Cole Location: Le Havre (76), France Status: Delivered in 2012
The arrival of the tram at Le Havre was accompanied by the redevelopment of the city centre, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2005. To light up the public spaces through which the tramline passes, Atelier H. Audibert designed a series of lamp posts in the architectural style of Auguste Perret - characterized by clean lines and lack of ornamentation. Each pole comprises three separate light sources, in LED. The upper part, which aims to light up the road areas, contains hundreds of diodes each coupled to a lens to direct the beam towards the ground. The level of illumination from the source is scalable depending on usage time. Overlaid micro-perforated sheet metal, illuminated by LED strips, applies a shimmering effect to the light emanating from the central section of the mast. On the lower part, each of two projectors is mounted on a bracket to direct the beam towards a building or landscape element: a clump of trees, a walkway, a clock... The series of poles is broken down into three versions: 8 metres, 6 metres, 4 metres.
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Reading lights, BULAC Project management: Ateliers Lion & associates Location: Paris (75), France Status: delivered in September 2011
HervĂŠ Audibert designed reading lamps for the university library of the Languages and Civilizations Centre, with a shape reminiscent of the tables to which they are attached. The frame has a fluorescent tube with an asymmetrical reflector, so as to avoid dazzling the students.
Design - achievements
Lamps for the Aubervilliers hall Centquatre Client: Paris City Council, Directorate of Cultural Affairs Location: CENTQUATRE, Paris (75), France Status: delivered in 2008
HervĂŠ Audibert wanted to emphasise the memory of the location: the Centquatre has indeed been built within the walls of an old undertaker's service. We originally imagined reproducing the last words of Goethe, "Mehr Licht" - more light - in neon letters, folded over the ventilation ducts of the central nave. We had to change plans when we realized that the letters, broken, could only be read from a certain angle. In addition, the CENTQUATRE directors at the time were hostile to anything too pronounced in the site. The lighting retained the angle of the layout of the letters, forming an abstract pattern.
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Show room chandelier Jean-Paul Gaultier Headquarters Client: Jean-Paul Gaultier Group Location: Jean-Paul Gaultier HQ, Paris (75), France Status: delivered in 2004
This chandelier hijacked the Venetian chandelier, with its crystal pendants. Its droplets are suspended between two glass plates. Four projectors fixed to the ceiling light up the plates and spread crystalline reflections on the floor and walls of the room.
Design - achievements
Prestige complex chandelier, Riyadh Project management: Oger International Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Status: delivered in 2003
The lighting for the replica of the Alhambra and its gardens in Riyadh was designed by Atelier H. Audibert, there being no artificial light on the historic site. HervĂŠ Audibert designed a monumental chandelier 30 metres in diameter to light up the Hall of the Ambassadors, the most majestic room in the Alhambra Palace. The chandelier, supporting 1000 discharge lamps was made on site.
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"Stalactites" chandeliers Rossignol Headquarters Project management: HĂŠrault Arnod Architects Location: Saint-Jean-de-Moirans (38), France Status: prototyping.
Located in the middle of a plain surrounded by mountains, the headquarters of the world leader in skiing equipment was designed using the image of a snowdrift. Atelier H. Audibert provided the lighting for the curved roof of the building, which seems to be bathed in artificial lunar light. To light up the internal street, which traverses the building from side to side, HervĂŠ Audibert designed chandeliers which evoke the shape of stalactites.
Shows
Le Père Heiner Müller
Staging: André Wilms Set design: Adriane Westerbarkey Video: Stéphane Gatti Composer: Michaël Jarrell Location: Théâtre de l’Athénée, Paris (75), France Date: 2010
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Werther Massenet
Staging: Mariame ClĂŠment Set design: Julia Hensen Location: National Opera of the Rhine, Strasbourg (67), France Date: 2009
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Pirame and Thisbe
François Rebel and François Francoeur Staging: Mariame Clément Set design: Julia Hansen Location: Angers-Nantes Opera (44), France117 Date: 2007
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La belle Hélène Offenbach
Staging: Mariame Clément Set design: Julia Hensen Location: National Opera of the Rhine, Strasbourg (67), France Date: 2006
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Lenz Berg
Staging: Michel Deutsch Set design: Roland Deville Location: Bordeaux Opera (33), France119 Date: 2006
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Mensch oder schwein Michel Deutsch
Staging: Michel Deutsch Set design: Jean-Marc StehlĂŠ Location: Saint-Gervais Theatre, Geneva, Switzerland Date: 2005
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Il Signor Bruschino Gioacchino Rossini
Staging: Mariame ClĂŠment Set design: Julia Hansen Location: Lausanne Opera, Switzerland121 Date: 2004
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Avant après Staging: Michèle Foucher Set design: Serge Marzolff Location: Palais de la Découverte, Paris (75), France Date: 2003
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Germania III Heiner Müller
Staging: Jean Jourdheuil Set design: Mark Lammert Location: Belém Cultural Centre, Lisbon, Portugal123 Date: 1997
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Comment rendre l’autre fou Staging and authorship: Emmanuel Schaeffer Set design: Christian Fenouillat Location: Benoit XII Halle, Avignon Festival (84), France Date: 1995
127
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La bataille d’Arminius Kleist
Staging: Jean Jourdheuil Set design: Gilles Aillaud Location: Amandiers Theatre, Nanterre (92), France125 Date: 1995
Shows
Armide Lully
Staging: Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser Set design: Christian Fenouillat Location: Anvers Opera, Belgium Date: 1992
129
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The Tempest Shakespeare
Choreography: Karine Saporta Set design: Jean Bauer Location: Avignon Festival (84), France127 Date: 1991
Shows
Le cas Müller Staging: Jean Jourdheuil and Jean-François Peyret Set design: Nicky Rieti, Titina Mazelli and Gilles Aillaud Location: Carnes Theatre, Avignon Festival (84), France Date: 1991
131
Shows
De natura rerum Lucretia
Staging: Jean Jourdheuil and Jean-Franรงois Peyret Set design: Titina Mazelli Location: MC 93, Bobigny (93), France Date: 1990
Shows
La route des chars Heiner Müller
Staging: Jean Jourdheuil and Jean-François Peyret Set design: Nicky Rieti Location: MC 93, Bobigny (93), France Date: 1988
133