S4 Terminal - “Respect Me” Architects Aéroports de Paris (ADP) have commissioned contemporary artist Matteo Messervy for a monumental light installation in the new terminal at Charles de Gaulle Airport which will be open to the public the 28th of June 2012.

80 000 people pass through the Paris airport each day.

Matteo Messervy’s conception is taken from the natural world to achieve a vision of tranquillity in contrast to the airport’s bustling atmosphere. 

Using the latest technology in the industry, Messervy’s particular use of light suggests idyllic images of tilled land reflected in the architecture of the ceiling, reminiscent of the landscape of Roissy before the construction sixty years ago.

 Matteo Messervy’s conception is taken from the natural world to achieve a vision of tranquility in contrast to the airport’s bustling atmosphere. The element of water plays a significant role in this installation in order to create a universe that is soothing and gentile. Messervy has created fifteen monumental suspensions that hang effortlessly above the thousands of arriving and departing passengers. These hand blown glass sculptures resemble drops of water. The ripple of their wake become increasingly seductive as small LEDs pulsate to the rhythm of a human heart beat.

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Architect: Paul Andreu