• PROJECT
    Val d'Europe aquatic complex
  • LOCATION
    Bailly Romainvilliers
  • CLIENT
    San du Val d'Europe
  • PROJECT MANAGEMENT
    Marc Mimram Architecture et Ingénierie, CD2I – Atelier Acanthe paysagistes / Mutabilis - LASA
  • DATES
    2007 – 2012
  • SURFACE
    3 510 m² Bassin sportif 525 m²
  • COST
    9 M€
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The design of structures is nothing without the capacity it has to transform the path of lights. The Val d’Europe swimming pool is like a painting by Carlo Fontana, sheared here in the roof to play with orientations and bring the light as close as possible to the swimmers.

The pleasures of water combine with the pleasures of the seasons, orientations and lights by rejecting the hypothesis of an icy uniformity of the water area to favor, on the contrary, variations, sparkles and shine. 

The roof is this machine that favors lighting effects, like a flying carpet above the contingencies of the program, to open in a variable manner along the ever-changing gentle curves of the double-curved surface that shapes it. The landscaped project, the plantations, the beaches extend this constructed, solid and refined universe. The aquatic complex is a welcoming space, open to a wide audience coming to rediscover the pleasures of water.