The sports center’s concept by Côté Leahy Cardas Architects rests on the alteration of the site on which it will be implemented. A site which has been metamorphosed from an industrial field (a quarry) into a landfill and will now be transformed into a park and environmental complex. By its shape, and its feature, its adaptability to the site, by its suggested trails and visual links, the project expresses the whole transformation, the evolution towards a huge environmental park, opened on research and experimentation. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Our first aim is a sensible integration with the site, improving it without imposing. The integration of a voluminous building into this molded site, at the interface park-boulevard, requests to continue alterations on the natural soil. The undulation of the park will be increased; the ground distorts even more in order to accommodate the future soccer complex’s volume. The mound wins in height to shelter the player’s spaces of the outside play field, stretches out to cover the entrance and huge hall, unfurls in grandstands for the spectators of the outside play field.
