Colored, modular and high tech furniture

Innovative furniture on the urban campus of Paris-Saclay

COLOR BLOCKS is a range of furniture that invites dynamic contact with the city. This colorful and innovative project signed by the designer Alexandre Moronnoz, was chosen by the EPA Paris-Saclay, following a competitive dialogue for the design of street furniture in the ZAC du Moulon where the urban campus of the University Paris-Sud is located.

For a pleasant and dynamic city, the Color Blocks range integrates technological functions such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth speakers, USB sockets, "intelligent" lighting and a water fountain. It invites a dynamic appropriation of public space (picnicking, listening to music, working outdoors, doing sports exercises...)

To preserve the fauna, the flora, and to optimize energy consumption, the lighting is equipped with presence detectors, they are only activated at certain times, and only when users are present. Outside these periods, they remain off.

A DYNAMIC CONTACT WITH THE CITY

"Color is appealing in a predominantly mineral environment; it generates a physical and dynamic contact with the city. It vibrates and physically catches the eye. It can promote relaxation and conviviality by inviting users to appropriate the site. The campus is a built space, with predominantly gray, white and black. I wanted to bring color to the scale of the objects to make the public space dynamic and friendly. I therefore proposed the COLOR BLOCKS concept to the EPA: modular and adaptable. Like a Lego set, it is made up of geometric and colored blocks, modular and functional, drawn in the manner of pictograms." Read the interview with Alexandre Moronnoz

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