Conceived as a campus for sports on a
regional scale, this project integrates a great diversity of programs (covered
pool, multisport courts, gymnasium, lodging, etc). To give a strong identity to a project
situated on a site with no contextual surroundings or discernible character, we
chose to ground the multifarious elements of the program into a continuous,
inhabited wall. This infrastructural
wall, at the scale of land art, is 350 m long and fabricates a series of public
spaces along its length.The various
structures housing the sports facilities are organized along an interior street
which echos the public space created by the wall on the other side. Committed to a sustainable approach, the
project uses sophisticated passive ventilation methods as well as solar energy
to render the complex as autonomous as possible in terms of its energy
needs.