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.

” Work on the building’s compactness – volume, footprint, facade 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.

Minimized footprint to give nature pride of place: the project renaturalizes the site, weaves links with existing vegetation, interacts with light, air and water, and maximizes open-ground surfaces.

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.

Inside, the materials chosen are noble and largely bio-sourced: wood cladding, wood-fiber acoustic panels and raw-earth brick walls made from Grand Paris Express construction debris.

raising the profile of
Colombian sport

With its wide glass façade, the facility showcases Colombia’s sporting excellence: a window onto the city, where everyone can catch a glimpse of the sporting events and programs 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

MANAGEMENT PROJECT
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, Sébastien Moinet

STUDIES
Sara Averardi

COMPANY
CBC Construction

TECHNICAL SHEET

STATUS On-going research

PROJECT MANAGEMENT ASCODEV

CALENDAR 2024

SURFACE 5100 m²SP

WORKS 15.7 M€ EXCL. TAX

PERSPECTIVIST IDA+

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