Water Station
Project : Cercle Festival
Location : Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace
Mission : Scénographie
Client : Cercle
Year : 2024
Design, production and installation of a water fountain to immerse festival-goers in the aerospace world of the Cercle Festival 2024.
In May 2024, Douze Degrés proposed an immersive installation based on water consumption for the Cercle Festival at the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace. This world-renowned event attracts 24,000 festival-goers to experience a unique moment, immersed in artists performing under a collection of aircraft that have left their mark on history.
Our aim was to rethink the way festival-goers consume water at the festival, and to design an object that would extend their experience of the aerospace world. Like a traditional fountain, the Water Station had to be a meeting point for festival-goers.
Conceived as a resting place, it places water at the centre of attention.
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Photography @Maxime Chermat.
The Water Station draws its aesthetics and its operation from the enigmatic and water consumption techniques specific to space research.
Drawing on codes specific to the collective imagination of the conquest of space, we have produced a form that suggests that the object landed like a lunar module on the tarmac at Le Bourget.
As the tarmac does not allow the fountain to be fixed to the ground, the studio took this constraint as an opportunity to produce details that set the scene for the fountain.
Details such as the ballast, the footprint and the hexagonal shape reinforce the idea that the object could have landed before taking off again.
As with traditional water fountains, the studio's aim was to showcase what is normally hidden.
Exposed, the Water Station deliberately exposes its structure and its water network, which are the essence of the object.
Photography @Chloé Jeannot
Mounting
With a view to demountability and reusability, the structure is designed as a dissociated architecture. Our workshop experience has enabled us to carry out a series of tests for the development of a demountable and reusable piping system.
This water network is uninterrupted from the water supply to the drainage tank. The various elements used to cover the faces (plates and pockets) have been designed to contribute to the rigidity of the overall structure of the object.