Fabrice Delmontel worked closely with Peugeot's team of stand and car designers on the project, and also with Stephane Fleury, Impact Evenement's technical manager. He explains that the car and stand design teams both have very different agendas in terms of aesthetics, but all of them are working to the ultimate goal of having the best presented stand in the hall.
Peugeot's theme this year centred around the environment and keeping the process of manufacturing and running a car as green and environmentally-friendly as possible, so the stand featured lots of grass and plants. They also wanted the lighting to emulate the clean, stylish look of the stand. "The cars had to be well lit, yet the space around them needed to feel cozy and comfortable for people looking at and examining the vehicles," explains Delmontel.
With the majority of the trusses trimmed at 16m at Palexpo - high for an exhibition hall - he needed fixtures with real power and the punch to cut right through from that height and to produce at least 4000 Lux on the stand. 114 ColorSpot 2500E ATs were rigged on overhead trusses all around the stand.
Delmontel used the ColorSport 2500E ATs in a slightly unusual way - they were de-focussed to produce a diffused effect and then pointed at the cars that were located all over the stand. "This worked absolutely beautifully and gave us the precise quality of very bright light that I wanted," he says. They were used either in white or with CTO filtering, and produced in excess of 4500 Lux on reaching the products.
In addition to the ColorSpot 2500E ATs, Delmontel utilised 31 ColorWash 1200 ATs for back lighting two walls made from screen material in blue. 16 of the new Robe ColorWash 250 ATs were rigged around a low ceiling enclosure above the new and featured Peugeot 207 on a revolving plinth. Every few minutes, bursts of smoke billowed from below the car and were coloured by the ColorWash 250 ATs programmed into a chase. All Peugeot stand lighting was controlled from a GrandMA console.
(Jim Evans)
