- Architect: Atelier CAMBIUM, OLGGA Architects
- Year:2017
- Area: 1549 m²
- Location: Saint-Paul-lès-Dax, France
- Manufacturers: Technal, AFRACOM, ROLPIN, MARTY SPORT
- Other Participants:ITH / Calixte Tinard / A+R Salles / Sedes / Bilto Ortega
Plaine des Sports / OLGGA Architects + Atelier CAMBIUM
Text description provided by the architects. The site is located north of the town in a location known as “Les Pins de Gouaillard et la Liberté” alongside the 824 Departmental road
The main access is from Avenue des Lacs via the Chemin du Golf. A country road, that crosses the site, gives access to pedestrians and cyclists, notably from Lac de Christus.
The sports complex includes 4 rugby and football fields, a 500-seat stand, changing rooms, a clubhouse, a children’s playground, a multi-activity area with an athletics track, and a freely accessible sports/nature area.
The Plaine des Sports project is just as much about architecture as it is about landscape. We sought to propose an orthogonal composition, a clean rectangle that encloses the sports facilities, framed by the playing fields service roads.
Encumbered by many ecological constraints throughout the entire site (the presence of protected species such as the false ringlet butterfly coenonympha oedippus and the European Nightjar caprimulgus europaeus and the proximity of wetlands and the Gouaillard stream) that influenced our design to produce Plaine des Sports, a dense and efficient area.
The stand acts as an architectural signal, a line in the landscape visible in both directions from the 824 Departmental Road. Perpendicular to the road, its location makes it visible in a “green tracking”, a careful balance between planting and the presence of technical equipment (lighting masts, ball nets).
