Bussy Saint-Georges Sports Complex, Paris Public Building, Architect, Architecture Images
Bussy Saint-Georges Sports Complex near Paris
ZAC of Sycomore Building Development in Northern France – design by Martin Duplantier Architectes
27 Mar 2017
Bussy Saint-Georges Sports Complex
Design: Martin Duplantier Architectes
Location: ZAC of Sycomore, Bussy Saint-Georges (77) France
Bussy Saint-Georges Sports Complex

Located on the edge of this suburban town, the building faces the horizon made of agricultural fields and infrastructures lines.

For Bussy, this new and growing city at the East of Greater Paris area, this sport center represents one of the major public facilities. The rural and «fake-old» identity of the surroundings and its individual houses plays the role of contrast for the project.
Emphasizing the horizon of the fields by cutting horizontally the three volumes of the building

is the first step of the project. The alternation of empty and full portions develops a checkerboard

of concrete and translucent elements that could be recognized day and night, from close as well as from far away.

The calm but radical architecture draws its sources from the rural vocabulary (farms, cellars) where the functions and fluxes create forms.

The main entrance is set in the central block on the south facade. Split in two by the horizon line, slightly elevated, it offers a clear view on the great landscape and distributes the whole complex with minimum clearance. Outs...