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A + ARCHITECTURE PALAIS DES CONGRÈS & CASINO CAP D’AGDE Dossier de presse juin 2017 Press kit June 2019 A+ARCHITECTURE MONTPELLIER 220, rue du Capitaine Pierre Pontal 34000 Montpellier T +33 (0)4 99 74 27 42 A + ARCHITECTURE PALAIS DES CONGRÈS & CASINO CAP D’AGDE A+ARCHITECTURE TOULOUSE Press kit - June 2019 4, rue Georges Courteline 31100 Toulouse T : +33 (0)5 62 27 00 70 A+ARCHITECTURE PARIS 59, rue Lepic 75018 Paris T +33 (0)1 42 54 61 12 [email protected] www.aplus-architecture.com COMPLETION OF THE BUILDING April 2019 SURFACE AREA Palais des congrès: 5800 m2 floor area 2015 competition winner Casino: 2430 m2 floor area Land: 12,3 hectares LOCATION Cap d’Agde, Hérault (FR) TASK MOP law on public project contracting and its relationship to private project management CLIENT City of Agde CONSTRUCTION COST 33 100 000 € excl. VAT PROGRAM + Sustainable Buildings in Occitanie Approach [Démarche Urban design of the gateway to the city, creation of an architectural Bâtiments Durables en Occitanie - BDO] bronze level complex (Palais des Congrès, auditorium with a seating capacity of 1,200, Casino), exterior landscaping (forecourt, parking and service areas), as well as a promenade connecting the Palais des Congrès to the port BETWEEN LAND AND SEA, BETWEEN LIVING GARDEN, BELVEDERE AND SKY, PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM COMPANIES BETWEEN MINERAL AND ORGANIC: THE BIRTH OF A NEW URBAN CENTRE Lead architect Earthworks: BUESA/SOLATRAG/EIFFAGE A+Architecture Facilities: Associate architect A+Architecture has just completed the redevelopment of a playful spatial organisation allows easy access from inside Structural works: SOGEA SUD BATIMENT / GIRAUD SERIN Philippe Escamez Architecte new district at the gates of Cap d’Agde. and outside, on foot or by bicycle, to all the facility’s Sealing, cladding: SOPREMA The agency has also completed two major facilities which, services: lobby, exhibition hall, offices, meeting rooms Executive project manager / Scheduling, overseeing Exterior joinery: BARSALOU like two white concrete pearls, signal the renewal of this of and an auditorium with a seating capacity of 1,200, where and coordination of the works Façade (Di Rosa mesh sculpture): SOLATRAG this area, the Palais des Congrès and the Casino. turquoise blue, the only accent colour in this white complex, Arteba Architectural metalwork: SOLATRAG evokes the waves of the Mediterranean. Scenography Interior joinery: CARAYON A vast gently sloping promenade links them to the port, the Crea Factory heart of this seaside town created by Jean Le Couteur during A large, gently sloping square is on the roof of the complex. Partitions, linings, suspended ceilings: CUBERO the Racine mission. Perched high above the site and on one side, a panoramic Structural engineering Mobile partitions: SAS EOLE Terrell room, whose shape evokes a Solen (a bivalve shell Raised floors: COMEY Emblematic of the development, the Palais des Congrès has commonly called a razor shell), offers exceptional views of Construction economics Flooring: PROCERAM become the resort’s new showcase. the entire surrounding landscape. L’Echo Electricity, stage equipment: SOMITEG Utilities and electricity HVAC plumbing: ROGER RENARD ENTREPRISE Connected to the Casino by a set of circular walkways, the In close collaboration with A+Architecture, Hervé di Rosa, complex offers a formidable and unprecedented three- an artist from Sète, played with the theme of the seabed Celsius Environnement Stage metalwork: TAMBE dimensional pedestrian square that also creates a seamless in a mischievous way to design the 2,900 m2 white metal Earthworks, Roads & Utility Services and electricity Chairs: HUGON TRIBUNES connection between the new seaside resort in Agde and its mesh sculpture that covers the two buildings of this (high voltage A, low voltage A, street lighting) Signage installations: GROUPE MERIDIS historic town located a few kilometres inland. belvedere between land, sea and sky. Gaxieu Paintwork: ATELIER MEDITERRANEEN Water supply & sanitation, Roads & Utility Services, Lifts: KONE The Palais hall extends over three levels, all three of electricity (high voltage A) which connect to one of the winding walkways. A very Roads & Utility Services: Prima Groupe Wet utilities: SOLATRAG Demolition Roads: EIFFAGE Ginger CEBTP Dry utilities: SOGETRALEC Thermic & environmental assessment Celsius Environnement Landscape: Entreprise PSP (Nursery, Sport, Landscape) Landscaping Street furniture: METALCO Agence TER paysagistes / PMC Creation Acoustics Cabinet Vincent Hedont 4 5 A + ARCHITECTURE Palais des Congrès & Casino Cap d’Agde 6 7 A + ARCHITECTURE Palais des Congrès & Casino Cap d’Agde 8 9 A + ARCHITECTURE Palais des Congrès & Casino Cap d’Agde 10 11 A + ARCHITECTURE Palais des Congrès & Casino Cap d’Agde 12 13 A + ARCHITECTURE Palais des Congrès & Casino Cap d’Agde EXTERIOR DECORATION THE PROPOSAL FOR AGDE A unique proposal, at the crossroads of two different types mullet, red mullet, damselfish and hake populate this living of work experimented with by Hervé Di Rosa in recent years: façade around the Youth of Agde statue, a local treasure. seascape paintings and cut metal sculptures. The work is composed of 6 panels, each of which is 90 cm For this piece, the artist combined both of these techniques wide and 3 m high. These 6 panels create a subtle repetition and designed a cut-out metal seascape. It exemplifies all on the façade that combines symmetries and differences. It WHY HERVÉ DI ROSA? the characteristic features of Di Rosa’s work: a generous is through this work that art meets architecture. accumulation, benevolent figures, an anchoring in the local • The artist’s international dimension. area and evidence of drawing in the design. In addition to being the symbol of the renewal of Cap d’Agde, the complex (conference centre and casino) is thus also the • The figurative and narrative nature of his work, which Sea anemones, moray eels, sardines, jellyfish, starfish, clams, largest work of art in the world of the artist (surface area of makes it possible to design a façade that “tells the wolfish, octopuses, squid, St Pierre fish, crabs, sea bream, 2,900 m2). story” of the town of Agde. • Local knowledge. Originally from Sète, Hervé Di Rosa remains very involved in the local cultural life. Original drawings by Hervé Di Rosa. The panels in place. 14 15 A + ARCHITECTURE Palais des Congrès & Casino Cap d’Agde A + ARCHITECTURE MONTPELLIER AT HEART, DESIGNING THROUGHOUT FRANCE Founded in Montpellier thirty years ago, the A+ Group is based in Paris and Toulouse. It is involved throughout the country in major projects in the fields of culture, the tertiary sector, housing, health, urban planning, etc., thanks to its various entities A+Architecture, Arteba, L’Echo and Celsius. THE ADDED VALUE OF MULTIDISCIPLINARITY The firm has contributed to the architectural heritage of Montpellier and its surroundings, with such projects as The 9 partners combine passion, enthusiasm, talents the Arena, the Altrad Rugby Stadium, Jean-Claude Carriere The A+ team and know-how. They combine other areas of expertise Theatre at the Domaine d’O, Port Marianne’s Urban related to the art of building, with a mutidisciplinary Planning, the Saint-Jean Clinic, the Liner (office building), approach to architectural practice. and the extension of the Montpellier Airport. However, 70% of the firm’s turnover reaches beyond Montpellier, with projects such as redefining Cap d’Agde’s A WIDE SCOPE OF EXPERTISE City Entrance through urban planning and the construction of a casino & congress center (Hérault), Ada Lovelace College The team, determined and creative, is now made up of over in Nîmes (Gard), construction of an Emergency & Firefighting 90 members: architects, urban planners, engineers, etc. It is Call Center in Nîmes-Garons (Gard), extension of a public structured around three areas of expertise: hospital in Villefranche-sur-Saône (Rhône), creation of - architecture, urban planning & design, nursing homes in Pomarez (Landes), Gimont (Gers) and Lantosque (Alpes Maritimes), creation of a housing and - project management, site management & construction commercial complex in Villeneuve-Tolosane (Haute- economics, Garonne), creation of student housing for the CROUS in Aix- - building engineering and environmental approaches. en-Provence and Marseilles (Bouches-du-Rhône), creation The group specialises in large scale projects for public and of cultural events center in Mende (Lozère)... private clients. Each A+Architecture project is driven by a multidisciplinary team, under the impulse of its nine As a part of its development, the agency, who’s offices partners, with ingeniosity, experience and technical know- reside in the heart of the Lafeuillade domain in Montpellier, how combined, in order to bring innovative and responsive encourages external growth, assimilating new capabilities projects to fruition… Thus meeting and exceeding client and partnerships all the while, growing its geographical expectations. horizons above and beyond the mediterranean basin. This is reflected in the A+Architecture divisions in Paris and Toulouse, and the integration in 2018/2019 of four young partners who have been invested for several years within From left to right: Fabien Thuile, Clément Rabourdin, Issis Raman, Vincent Nogaret, Julie Carayon-Couderc, Philippe Bonon, Philippe Cervantes, the Group. Gilles Gal, Christophe Aubailly 16 17 A + ARCHITECTURE Palais des Congrès & Casino Cap d’Agde THE AGENCY’S NEWS CREDITS SAINT JEAN CLINIC COMPLETION 2020