Azimut Yachts takes part in Milano Design Week 2024 with an immersive installation curated by AMDL CIRCLE and Michele De Lucchi: a journey through the Bagni Misteriosi del Teatro Franco Parenti culminating in an imaginative stage on which Seadeck 6 moored in the shadow of a large moon invites visitors to rediscover man's gentle relationship with nature. It demonstrates that a more sustainable future is now a reality.
Avigliana, 15 April 2024 – Mooring by the Moon is an installation created by AMDL CIRCLE and Michele De Lucchi for Azimut Yachts at the Bagni Misteriosi of the Teatro Franco Parenti.
Architectural textures and structures are turned into scenographic parts of a big stage, on which a creative journey of beauty and technology reveals to the visitor - the protagonist - Azimut's new era of a delicate relationship between humans and the environment.
The path. Once entering the medieval entry of the Palazzina dei Bagni Misteriosi, the visitor is greeted by a suspended atmosphere in which the elements of the rooms interact with the installations to convey the awe of the natural world.
Images, sounds, and scents bring you to a dreamlike sea, which you find through the maze of doors in the old changing rooms in the first chamber. Large sculptures and shells made from Azimut's innovative materials - discarded and regenerated fishing nets, recycled plastic (PET), and carbon - stand out like theatrical wings in the second room, while the visitor climbs aboard Seadeck 6 in a space where furnishings and materials are used to recreate the vessel's internal environment, designed by Matteo Thun and Antonio Rodriguez.
The big moon. The path ends outside, providing a view of the environment in which Seadeck 6 is moored from a terrace hung over the ocean.
Seadeck 6 is the physical representation of the path that Azimut has taken to cut down on energy use and CO2 emissions. In fact, the boat can reduce emissions by up to 40% during the course of an ordinary year of use. Shiny galvanized steel shingles, mirrored to create a big disk shaped like the moon, are highlighted by the play of reflections that accentuate the dynamic effect of the light pattern, evoking the lunar glow.
"The difference can and must be made here and now. Not with distant promises of a world to come or with a superficial approach to the topic of environmental sustainability. The boat in the swimming pool of the Bagni Misteriosi is the emblem of our commitment: concrete, measurable and always present," explains Giovanna Vitelli, Chair of Azimut|Benetti Group.
"The purpose of this installation is to involve visitors in the theater of life and arouse the imagination, without which we would be just animals and nothing more. It is only with our imagination that we can see a brighter future on the horizon, much more harmonious than today's present,” says Michele De Lucchi, Founder of AMDL CIRCLE.
