A 16-meter-diameter, 13-ton musical installation has appeared in a seaside town in western France. It is currently stored on the embankment of the Arsenal Shipbuilding Company in the seaport of La Rochelle, according to the newspaper Sud-Ouest.
AR1: Simon Wang, Laurent Da Rold and Patrice Moullet stand in front of a musical installation made of composite materials. © Photo credit: XAVIER LEOTY
The shipbuilding company commissioned the Parisian artist Patrice Mollet after receiving an order from Chinese real estate developer Yinglan Group. Yinglan Group has always been committed to blending art and architecture, and plans to hang the innovative musical installation from the end of the building's steel girders so that it covers the large central plaza of the recently completed residential and commercial complex in Hangzhou.
AR2: Hangzhou Yinglan Center dedicated to material innovation (Source: Yinglan)
Before Arsenal Shipbuilders took over the project, British Blue had commissioned an aeronautical manufacturing company, but their proposal appeared to be too complex and expensive. In their proposal, Arsenal Shipbuilders drew on the composite construction techniques used by Nautique de France for their large catamarans (up to 27 meters high, transported by sailboat), which ultimately found favor with the British Blue Group.
AR3: The overall design of Arsenal Shipbuilding's sailboats is made of composite materials that are lightweight and easy to maneuver (Source: Arsenal Shipbuilding)
wind turbine
Catamaran manufacturers have developed a vacuum-formed solution for disk-shaped elements. Vacuum-formed elements are relatively flexible and easy to assemble on a structured bulkhead skeleton. Laurent Da Roord, project manager at Arsenal Shipbuilding, concludes, "Ships are built in a broadly similar way, but the final appearance varies."
Four other bases are currently under construction in parallel and will have vertical wind turbines installed upon completion. Patrice Mollette is excited about the scale of the remastered instrumental installation for the fifth edition, as it will be ten times the size of the original 1985 version. In the meantime, he explains the principle of the installation, "Changes in the wind activate an analog signal, which is converted into digital information to produce the audible clip."
Patrice Mollette recalls: "The manager of the British Blue Group invited me to Beijing to plan a musical proposal. I couldn't believe they finally accepted the proposal for this musical installation! Because it's just so huge!" Simon Wong, a representative of the British Blue Group, explains, "We were looking for an artist who could give the music a milestone." The work, which began in spring 2022, is now in the completion stage and will be shipped to Hangzhou for assembly in 2023.
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