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The Poissonniers sport center is designed by archi5 to meet the requirements of a new generation of flexible, multi-porpose facilities. The project is an initial part of the nieghborhood's future outlines, with new synergies facilitating new pathways. The site plays a pivotal role in a broadly open lanscape with far-reaching views and a classic urban grid on the south side. Located bedside train tracks, the city has opened the view onto the railway landscape on the east side and the public garden on the west side.

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The landscape project is designed for the entire plot as a single entity, composed of staggered sequences. The building becomes a hill rising toward the sky. The vegetation is planted on the talus and the building's sides, with the denser planting at the ground level becoming more mineral on the upper levels. It is a practicable landscape building; it is fully integrated into its green environment and dialogues with the surrounding buit area.

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The new facility is place where the place term "practice" takes on its full meaning. First of all, it is for sports, with simple and easy to use spaces. Warm and sunlit areas where flows are managed as closely as possible to uses. Le gymnasium and multipurpose hall, clad in wood with clerestory windows provides a serene context in which to practice sports.

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Proejct sheets
Client: Ville de Paris
Architects: archi5
Program: sports center, social areas, garden
Surface: 2,595 sqm + 788 sqm (landscaping)
Cost: 8,200,000 excl. VAT euro
Calendar: competition won in 2016, delivered in 2020
General building company: Léon Grosse
Economist, all trades coordination: Cotec