• PROJECT
    Sport and entertainment hall
  • LOCATION
    Rue Charles Lamarre, 62480 Le Portel
  • CLIENT
    Région Haut-de-France
  • PROJECT MANAGEMENT
    Marc Mimram Architecture et Ingénierie, SNC Lavallin, Peutz & Associés
  • DATES
    2010 – 2015
  • AREA
    7,600 m² multifunctional facility. Adaptable and versatile spaces according to the use of the room. Competition configuration: 3,500 seats - Show configuration: 4,718 seats, including 2,250 seats in the pit
  • COST
    13 M€
  • ENVIRONMENTAL CERTIFICATIONS
    RT 2012
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The sport and entertainment hall blends with its surroundings and takes advantage of the beautiful topography open to the sea.

Three registers shaped this project:

-Sports performance in a direct and friendly relationship with spectators ;

-Attention to the spectators' path between the wooden facade and the continuous openings onto the landscape of the “Falaise” [eng. Cliff] park and the port ;

-The inclusion in the geography of “the Falaise” park of an infrastructure open to the city and constituting a public realm that shapes the relationship with the landscape.

The sports and entertainment hall has its origins in the study of the geography that welcomes it. Above the plant base which extends from the “Falaise” Park, it is the unity of the facade and the roofing that is indicated by the large curved strip of the wooden facade above the foliage of the trees. This landscape is of major importance: it gives scale, anchoring, and installs the architectural quality of the project in its green setting.

The building is much open to the city, to the landscape of the port, as it is to sports and entertainment. The consistency found between the sports performance, the atmosphere of the hall, its image on the city, and the constructive quality are the guarantees of its sustainability.