For the
Paris 2024 Olympic Village , design firms Concepto and Studio 5.5 installed
350 street lighting poles made from reclaimed building materials. The lighting project is part of a scheme overseen by Olympic Games delivery authority
Solideo with the aim of
reducing carbon emissions by 47% compared to a conventional project.
Landscape architecture firm
Agence TER , responsible for planning the public areas, collaborated with
Studio 5.5 to create a list of
low-carbon materials for these spaces, which includes
lighting and
street furniture. Putting this
sustainable design agenda into practice, the public lighting was designed to be manufactured using decommissioned poles and components sourced from
construction sites .
"It's easier to go for the new thing in the catalogues, but as we were creating the Olympic Village, we wanted to set an example of
different design ," Studio 5.5 co-founder and partner Anthony
Lebossé told UK magazine Dezeen.
Lighting design firm
Concepto was tasked with creating a plan to light the village, which involved defining the locations and orientation of each of the
350 streetlights to ensure they provide light where it is needed.
Old-style streetlights, with their generic, standardized shapes, have been phased out by many local authorities in favor of
more architecturally innovative designs that are produced in a
wide range of colors and materials , Lebossé explained. The poles created for the Olympic Village vary in
shape, size and construction , with the tallest examples being made entirely from reused galvanized steel poles and the shorter ones from
laminated wood poles. The
350 streetlights will remain in place after the Olympics. The Paris Olympic organizing committee has pledged to
halve emissions from this year's Summer Games compared with recent editions of the event in
London and
Rio. Source: Dezeen
