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- Architects: Christophe Gulizzi Architecte, Auer Weber
- Location: Chemin des Trois Pigeons CS 40470 13592 Aix-en-Provence, France
- Area: 22731.0 m2
- Project Year: 2017
- Photographs: Lisa Ricotti, Aldo Amoretti
- Scenography: KANJU
- Audiovisual : Solos 3
- Landscape: Agence Guillermin
- Structure: CTE Lyon
- Allamanno: VRD
- Ineo : CFA
- Aixma: plumbing
- Tech3 S : SOL SPORTIF
- Isolbat : coisons doublages faux plafond
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From the architect. The Arena of Aix en Provence carries its own identity, represents a new gateway for the city, a powerful signal. It instates plainly in this wide territory, providing and following a hill shape project. It brings to light the site, offers its very essence.
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Sport has turned now into primary events and meaningful shows. The symbol of a building intented to provide such events has to personify this concept. An Arena is a contemporary theater, a link between sport and culture. In a delightful and emotional architecture spirit.
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In that respect, the idea of a classic facade has desappeared, to reveal a stratification of superimposed and dynamics rings.
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This protective covering represents an alegory of mouvement and energy. A praise of virtuosity, a conquest of the balance, searching for the perfect gestual.
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2nd Level Plan
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This protective shell, made off aluminium strips, reflects the surrounded landscape, according to the mood of time.
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It merges into its surroundings, gently imposes its geometry and its status of Public Building, wide opened on an esplanade, a true public place.
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Visible and with a marked identity, this is a real identification subject, an icon. In the heart of a territorial arrangement, this functional, adaptable and scalable shell, will contribute, by its iconographic merit, to the radiances of Metropole Aix Marseille.