Taking its inspiration from these historical hothouses, the new tennis court will be partly below ground level, surrounded by a terraced concrete platform, surmounted by a steel structure, and wrapped with botanical greenhouses designed to meet the highest technical specifications. These new greenhouses form a glass backdrop, a case within which plants from four continents can flourish. The design makes use of fragmented scales of glass, their edges arranged in two different directions. In this way the skin of the construction changes as the light alters as a result of diffraction, and vibrations are set up by the reflections on the irregular, broken up surfaces. The steel of the glasshouses gives rhythm to the whole, echoing the balanced structure of the terraces that rise up to the gallery running around the top of the building.