Incineration plants are often considered eyesores. Hoping to change this negative perception and actually draw attention to its building, Sitru, the owner of an incineration plant in Carrieres-sur-Seine, France, enhanced its plant's facade so it would be visible from a distance at night. The facade is now completely clad with a wall of profiled glass accentuated by a grid of vertical neon tubes. The goal of lighting designer Concepto was to change the image of this massive 100-m facade at night by using the special optical qualities of the glass-i.e. its light-reflective potential and its ability to diffuse light into the interior of the building. Completed this past January, the lighting display creates poetic, moving images reminiscent of rainfall, in contrast to the fires that burn in the incineration kilns. The graphics on the facade represent water and wind.
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