Porte Pouchet

Equipement sportif

With this new sports facility at Porte Pouchet, DREAM once again demonstrates its belief in sport as a vector for social cohesion. Beneath Paris’ overhead ring road, four five-a-side football pitches and a timber building contribute to the transformation of the neighbourhood.

 

The Porte Pouchet project is part of a large-scale urban redevelopment begun in 2003 to redefine Paris’ city gates. It aims to revive local life and create new links between Paris and the neighbouring towns of Clichy and Saint Ouen. The site, which was home to a vehicle pound and a municipal garage, has been transformed over an area of nearly 15 hectares thanks to a neighbourhood-wide scheme and the landscaping of large public spaces. The sports facility designed by DREAM beneath the périphérique ring road participates in the new attractiveness of this previously neglected area.

 

The practice’s flagship material, timber is used for the structure (walls and roof) and facade, bringing a warmth to this concrete environment. The grid pattern of the facade is inspired by the mesh of a football net, a nod to the new pitches, whose metallic structures have been unified by shades of green in order to blend into the surrounding green spaces.

 

Client Le Five
Architect DREAM
Project Manager Marie-Aglaé Boukouvalas
Team Sophia Charles
Timber Structural engineer Meha
M&E engineer Calther
Quantity surveyor Ecallard Economiste
Operator Le Five
Photos Marine Peixoto
 

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Location Paris 17, France
Sustainability RT 2012 | Timber structure
Status Delivered in November 2021