1024 Architecture / 24 LINES / light sculpture for the entrance hall and café at the art centre La Panacée in Montpellier

1024 architecture (Pierre Schneider and François Wunschel), has designed 24 Lines, an art installation serving as the entrance hall and café for the art centre La Panacée that opened on 22nd June in the middle of Montpellier, on the site of the former Royal College of Medicine.

Comprising an oxidized metal structure, bichromated assembly collars, wood and flexible neon lights, 24 Lines is an original work of art, a luminous and organic sculpture, bordering the different areas and functions of the art centre as well as offering a friendly environment conducive to meeting, discussion or a break.

To implement this monumental canopy incorporated by the building, 1024 Architecture used bichromated assembly collars that, once coupled with the oxidized steel pipes, bestow the “crafted” structure with very unusual aesthetics that echo back to the pre-existing elements of the building for the benefit of visitors. The basic structure is covered with birch panels and punctuated with 24 flexible neon lights, the entire length of the forty-metre installation.

1024 Architecture / 24 LINES / light sculpture for the entrance hall and café at the art centre La Panacée in Montpellier

1024 Architecture / 24 LINES / light sculpture for the entrance hall and café at the art centre La Panacée in Montpellier

1024 Architecture / 24 LINES / light sculpture for the entrance hall and café at the art centre La Panacée in Montpellier

1024 Architecture / 24 LINES / light sculpture for the entrance hall and café at the art centre La Panacée in Montpellier

1024 Architecture / 24 LINES / light sculpture for the entrance hall and café at the art centre La Panacée in Montpellier