Transport and Mankind

The Mobility exhibition space is an open space. It is an area that the visitor identifies not by its limits but by the formal familiarity of its components and by the ground on which all the installations rest. It is a fluid space. It would be like pinball balls describing Brownian movements and bouncing from one apparatus to another. The movement of the visitors is a major component of the scenography. We thus named this space: ‘The Pinball’.

"The oblique is the support of spatial continuity. It is continuity. Its development allows for partitioning without ever opposing displacement...". Claude Parent, in ‘Fluidity’ 1966-1996, Jean-Michel Place Edition.
The ground rises obliquely in its periphery. The inclined planes form a landscape of movement. The floor becomes a continuous space. This emerging ensemble composed of table, alcove, podium, lectern or screen defines the major part of the scenographic furniture.

Project
Permanent exhibition "Transport and people" at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie

Lieu
France, Paris 19^e

Tender
Public

Surface
900 m²

Team
Projectiles, architect + scenograph (project manager)
Félix Müller & Toan-Huu, graphic design
Adequat, construction economist

Client
La Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie

Stage
COMPETITION 2009
DESIGN IN PROGRESS 2010
CONSTRUCTION 2010
IN USE 2011