Marc Mimram Architecture & Associés has incorporated greenhouses into all four of the stands of the Court Simonne Mathieu at Roland Garros, home of the French Open.
Named after former French tennis player Simonne Mathieu, the 5,000-seat stadium officially opened this week for the start of the French Open. It is now the third show court for the tournament, which this year takes place between May 20 and June 9.

Located in the Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil botanical garden, the stadium is designed to function as both a court for the tennis tournament and an extension to the garden's public facilities.
"The Simonne-Mathieu tennis court is both a showcase for high-performance sport and a renewed botanical development," explained Marc Mimram, founder of Marc Mimram Architecture & Associés. "Just as the landscape designer Michel Corajoud wished, a dialogue between gardens and sport, botany and tennis, technical and physical performance has emerged from a shared space," he told Dezeen.

The greenhouses are all built around the outside of the sunken court.
They completely surround the stadium, with two 70-metre-long structures stretching along the east and west stands, and two 40-metre-long enclosures connected to the north and south stands.

The stadium's concourse, which provides access to the stands, runs alongside the greenhouses so that spectators can see the botanical collections.
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