Signal_Ethique

Inspired by the small mountains buildings, and landmarks from Sancy and Auvergne, the installation Signal_Ethique, by Arnaud Huart, echoes all of those landmarks.

Signal_Ethique is installed on the top of the Montagne de la Serre, which is part of the Chaîne des Puys area, to support the framework for the application form to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

By his monolithic shape, the installation want to catch the eyes on this old lava casting.

Signal_Ethique welcome the vistors in a religious atmosphere. The interior shaped as a twisted cone, catch the skylight by a zenith sheets window. The interior illumination come form this overhead window, and form the perforated attic, as a moucharabieh. These two supplementary light sources allow a ambience varying during the day.

Indoor seating and a metaphor of an altar up the development of the summary volume. The interior of the work is intended conducive for a moment of rest, contemplation or meditation. Signal_Ethique wants to bring the visitor to observe the evolution of the lighting on lived time. This contemplation, wants to bring the visitor to reconsider the time away from the dictates of time units imposed by man, pushing us to reflexed behaviors and less to thought acts.

rnaud Huart, Signal_Ethique. Top: Photo Studio Ae3 — Arnaud Huart, Signal_Ethique, Montagne de la Serre. Photo Studio Ae3

Like a lighthouse or a watchtower, solar spotlights are arranged inside to mark the landscape at night. The glow of spotlights filter outwards attic openwork and suggest a life inside the artwork. Automatic triggering of lighting will make the same point to the notion of lived time, not clock time. This visual and luminous marker in the landscape, wishes to bring the message away, calling curiosity by the unexpected, the unforeseen.