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Béziers, Fonseranes’ 9 sluices, France

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Béziers, Fonseranes’ 9 sluices, France

« Constructing the site of Fonseranes’ 9 sluices allows sharing a history that started 350 years ago. The landscape design aims to create a dreamlike promenade. A single floor leads the step, a single material for all the equipment. Everything is done to make the site both a destination and a starting point towards the other treasures of the Midi canal and the urban area »

Philippe Deliau ALEP, landscape designer.

The project illuminates a trail close to 1 km long punctuated with about ten heritage sites, the wooden floating dock, the water coach house, the sluices, the pond, and the docks.

At night, visitors discover a series of nocturnal scenes that lead them along a magnificent view of the Béziers fortification in the background. The darkness of the site is necessary to glorify each illuminated element; it allows softness and subtlety. Therefore, lighting remains modest, not all the site is illuminated, and the work reveals itself in a sleepy landscape.

Lighting creates atmospheres where visitors can indulge in plays of shadows, colored light and reflections. With 450,000 visitors a year, Fonseranes has been equipped to become a night time destination, to enliven the site through events, to develop a new relationship to the landscape and offer a one of a kind experience to the public.

PROJECT TEAM

  • Lighting Design: Concepto
  • Project Management: Lead landscape design ALEP / Architecture INCA / Scenography V.Mûre and G.Courat / Technical consulting EGIS
  • Contracting Owner: Agglomération de Béziers
  • Completion: 2018
  • Photo credit: Concepto & Hugo DA COSTA-Technilum
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