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Odyssey 21. City of Oceans and Sustainable Development

Le Havre - France

Odyssey 21 lives to the rhythms of the world maritime activity and captures the invisible of the maritime, port and coastal universes through 3 immersive LED screens (8m x 30m) connected in real time. From marine, terrestrial and satellite observatories and research laboratories around the world, data are sent to the sensitive sensor that is Odyssey 21.

Location
Le Havre

Client
City of le Havre
Year
2010

Phase
Concept
Surface
2 800 m²

Budget
25 M € HT
Mission
Design of the permanent exhibition

Stakes of the project

#sustainable #development #sea #maritime #environment
Although maritime transport is - and will probably remain for a long time - the least polluting per ton of goods transported, it is nevertheless one of the players in global warming through its emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollution.
#sense #human #system
Four approaches that define our relationship to the world: Sentire, Ludere, Inter-legere / Inter-ligare, Agere, The visitor, whatever his age or background, is thus received as a human being. To give to perceive and understand a complex maritime system, a simple exhibition design system is set up.
#invisible #privilege
Visitors access an inaccessible, invisible universe, both on sea and land. In the HUB and the VIGIE, visitors can see the non-visible of maritime transport: the port activity of Le Havre, and ports around the world, the maritime routes used by ships, maritime life, the Maritime Hinterland and its diversity.
#sensitive #mediation #sensor
Marine, terrestrial and satellite sensors and research laboratories from around the world send data from the maritime universe to the Odyssey 21 receiver. The VIGIE and the HUB restore this information on the territory of Le Havre, and on the rest of the world, in real, direct and delayed time.
#questioning #problematic #fragmentation #paradox
To give visitors the opportunity to question themselves by focusing on maritime transport, and to consider the issue of sustainable development through the problematic of commercial navigation and oceans, in a world in full environmental fragmentation.
#variability #rhythm #tide #current #temporality #immersion
The exhibition design stages the gigantic maritime transport system and shows its variability: the pulsations, the accelerations, the dead times, the times of nature and those of men.
#universes #goods #container
Container trays are carried into the space and offer visitors experiences, postures and surprises. The aesthetic register is that of density, rationality, efficiency, logistics scheduling, port standardization.

The exhibition areas (the Vigie and the Hub) display this information on the Le Havre area and the rest of the world, in real time, deferred, live when an event occurs. Odyssey 21 organizes the information, updates it, as a brain would do, and gives the visitor sensitive and playful tools to understand the elements of the maritime transport system and the means implemented by man to constantly adapt this system to strategic, climatic, economic and technical variables.

THE LIFE VIEW

For La Vigie, a platform suspended between sky and sea at a height of 90 m, the scenography is immaterial. Outside, augmented reality binoculars allow the invisible to be seen, extending the visitor’s eye in time (a look back at history) and space (beyond the horizon).

Inside, the surface of the ground is covered with LED screens and constitutes a giant panorama of the environment. The Vigie continues to rise above the city, we are in phase with the territory in real time: mists appear in the sky, we can also see them under our feet. This multimedia tool allows us to radically transform the space while leaving it free for other uses. At night, the moving glow of the floor is reflected in the stainless steel ceiling… La Vigie watches over the Le Havre area.

THE HUB

In order to give to perceive and understand a complex maritime system, a simple scenographic system is set up. It is inscribed in a singular, strong architecture and it draws the quintessence from it. In the Hub, white Corian© parallelepipeds of all dimensions, according to a mise en abîme of the proportions of an EVP container. White, as goods to be imagined behind the packaging, supports of colored cultural goods in the exhibition space. It is no longer the container that is colored (the container), but the content. To each dimension corresponds one or more uses: pedestals, trays, tables, benches, supports for screens, interactive cartels, dynamic maps, children’s toys…

The elements of containers that carry these goods are the standards of sea and land transport, black as for them. They allow for flexibility. Low trays, on which one goes up by ramps, reinforced trays, higher, which are used as tables, structures embedding manipulations. Three large screens allow real time, that of the port, that of the oceans and that of the coastline, to print differentiated rhythms in the Hub’s spaces.

This project is dedicated to Dominique Meyniel, a great doctor and sailor, who died on January 6, 2010.

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Credits

Architect, leading firm : Ateliers Jean Nouvel - Paris

Exhibition designers : Studio Adeline Rispal - Paris

Associated exhibition designer : Pierre Verger - Paris

Multimedia engineering and design : InnoVision - Paris

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Odyssey 21. City of Oceans and Sustainable Development

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