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PALAIS DES CONGRÈS & CASINO CAP D’ Dossier de presse juin 2017 Press kit June 2019 A+ARCHITECTURE 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 Press kit - June 2019 4, rue Georges Courteline 31100 Toulouse T : +33 (0)5 62 27 00 70

A+ARCHITECTURE 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 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

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 (), 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 (), Gimont () 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- and (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

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SAINT JEAN CLINIC

COMPLETION 2020 - Design launch 2016 NIMES EST COLLEGE CLIENT Cap Santé COMPLETION 2019 - Project Management Contest Winner 2015 PROGRAM Construction of a clinic with 251 basic beds, expandable CLIENT to 343 beds and places. Gard Departmental Council The clinic will include accommodation and outpatient PROGRAM units, an emergency service, an imaging department, an Reconstruction of a 400-pupil secondary school operating theatre and ancillary services (expandable to 600), half-board (250 meals/day), sports LOCATION facilities + racetrack and three staff houses Saint Jean de Vedas, Hérault (FR) LOCATION PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM Nîmes, Gard (FR) A+Architecture, Stéphane Goavec, IB2M, Celsius PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM Environnement, Ingeflux, Epsilon, C&G, Solea BTP, A+Architecture, Vielliard & Fasciani, Calder Ingénierie, Arteba, L’Echo, Atech Midi Arteba, L’Echo, Celsius Environnement, Louis Choulet, + BDM Occitania silver level SURFACE AREA Egsa, Epsilon, Gui Jourdan, C&G, Alma Consulting, + BEPOS energy level 25 327 m2 floor area - 26 151 2m SDO (net floor area) Empreintes Ergonomiques, Precodia, Cereg + NoWatt building CONSTRUCTION COST SURFACE AREA 2 48 000 000 € excl. VAT 5 100 m CONSTRUCTION COST 16 320 000 € excl. VAT

ILOT BOIS

COMPLETION 2021 - Project Management Contest Winner 2018 GENERAL SERVICES AND UNIVERSITY CLIENT PRESS BUILDING ‘LA MEDITERRANNÉE’ SNI / Pierres & Territoires COMPLETION PROGRAM 2019 - Project Management Contest Winner 2017 Construction of 66 social rental housing units CLIENT and 51 home-ownership scheme housing units Paul Valéry University - Montpellier 3 LOCATION PROGRAM , Bas-Rhin (FR) Construction of an office building to group General services PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM and an University Press ‘La Méditerrannée’ A+Architecture, Bik Architecture, CTE Strasbourg, LOCATION Cyber Fluides, L’Echo + NF Habitat HQE certification targeted Montpellier, Hérault (FR) SURFACE AREA + RT 2012 - 20% PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM 7 783 m2 floor area A+ Architecture, l’Echo, Arteba, Celsius Environnement, CONSTRUCTION COST Tractebel Engineering, Prima Groupe 9 660 000 € excl. VAT SURFACE AREA 1 471 m2 floor area CONSTRUCTION COST 2 400 600 € excl. VAT

MULTIPLEX CINEMA Communications & Development Manager, A+ Architecture COMPLETION HALL 2 - MONTPELLIER- 2019 - Project Management Contest Winner 2017 MÉDITERRANÉE AIRPORT Aurélie Breau - [email protected] +33 (0)4 99 74 27 46 CLIENT COMPLETION Bédarieux commune 2019 - Project Management Contest Winner 2016 Information sources / Hervé Di Rosa photos PROGRAM CLIENT Construction of a multiplex cinema on the site of http://dirosa.org SA AEROPORT MONTPELLIER MEDITERRANÉE La Tuilerie PROGRAM LOCATION Creation of a terminal for low-cost flights Drawings Bédarieux, Hérault (FR) at Montpellier airport © A+Architecture PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM Phase 1 development of a new departure route A+Architecture, PER Ingénierie, Celsius Environnement, Phase 2 development of a centralised commercial zone L’Echo, CREA Factory, ATech Midi, Les éclaireurs, Phase 3 development of an arrival hall Photos Epsilon GE, Arteba LOCATION SURFACE AREA , Hérault, FR © Benoît Wehrlé 1 465 m2 floor area PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM © Camille Gharbi CONSTRUCTION COST A+Architecture, TPFi, Arteba, L’Echo, Novicap, © Mario Sinistaj 2 450 655 € excl. VAT Ginger CEBTP © A+Architecture SURFACE AREA 5 970 m2 (Phase 1: 3 900 m2 / Phase 2: 1 450 m2 / Phase 3: 620 m2) Press contact, A+Architecture CONSTRUCTION COST 6 850 000 € excl. VAT Fatma Erhalac, FE Consulting - [email protected] +33 (0)6 01 48 26 24

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