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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.

 

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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.

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