an open facility
on two city sides

Featuring a wide forecourt overlooking boulevard Valmy, easily accessible from the city center to the south, and the Colombus block to the north of the A86, the new sports complex acts as a programmatic rotunda reconnecting two Colombes neighborhoods.

The site is criss-crossed by several pedestrian walkways that criss-cross gardens freely accessible to sports enthusiasts, passers-by and local residents, like new landscaped public spaces, occasionally revealing a compact, sober facility with an active first floor open to the city.

“The work on the building’s compactness – volume, footprint, façade development – and this search for lightness in the quantity of materials used guided our project throughout the design. Identity and frugality must go hand in hand in a flagship facility for the city of tomorrow”
– Alice Perugini, Project Manager

brick monolith
sober and durable

The building is discreet and distinctive: set against a glass base, a monolith of light-colored brick, recognizable from the freeway, whose facades light up as it hosts sporting events. It interacts with its context: rounded as it approaches the neighboring housing units, stretched out in contact with the tall existing plane trees.

The project renaturalizes the site, weaves links with existing vegetation, interacts with light, air and water, and maximizes open spaces.

Sober and long-lasting, the materiality of the project – glass for the base, brick for the body, metal for the roof – also demonstrates a desire to save on upkeep and maintenance. The use of the brick, with its matching hollow joints, ensures that it can be reused for future programmatic changes to the site.

The materials chosen are noble and largely bio-sourced: wood cladding, wood-fiber acoustic panels, raw-earth brick walls and exterior paving made from recycled oyster shells.

raising the profile ofColombian sport

With its large glass facade, the facility showcases Colombian sporting excellence: a window onto the city, where everyone can catch a glimpse of the sporting events and meetings that take place there.

The first two levels are thus involved in the daily life of the district: main hall and media hall – for events; secondary multi-sports hall – for schools and departmental competitions; multi-purpose hall – for sports associations.

The upper floors are dedicated to the activities that make Colombes a metropolitan center: a main multi-sports hall with bleachers for 1,000 spectators, dedicated to national-level competitions.

The atmosphere is warm and inviting, thanks to the zenithal lighting from the roof sheds and the wood cladding. The roof structure is visible: a mixed system of metal and wood beams.

PROJECT TEAM

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Architect, landscape designer: ANMA
Structure, fluids: Edeis
Acoustics: Alternative
Environment: Nobatek INEF4
Economy: Prisme
Operation and maintenance: Cram

COMPETITION
Alice Perugini, Pol-Alain Nedelec, Alexandre Bigot

STUDIES
Sara Averardi, Pierre Chancerel, Claudia Ballerini,
Jean-Charles Luciani

CHANTIER
Bruno Isambert

LANDSCAPE
Sébastien Moinet

COMPANY
CBC Construction

TECHNICAL SHEET

STATUS Completed

PROJECT MANAGEMENT Urban Ecology

DELIVERY 2024

SURFACE AREA 5,100 m² SP

WORK VALUE 15.7 M€ EXCL. TAX

PHOTOGRAPHY 11h45

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