a landscape for Le Havre Grand Stade
location
Le Havre / France
client
CODAH - Communauté d’agglomération Havraise
mission
urban design: guidance plan of the Grand Stade + public spaces design
area
21 ha
cost
20 M€
consortium
Richez_Associés paysage + Zon’Archi + INFRA Services + ETC Philippe Massé + Ph. A Concepteurs lumière et design
sustainable approach
_ environmental charter- ISO 14001 procedure
_ soft transportation modes (LRT, pedestrianisation, cycle-lanes)
_ green parking lot
_ storm water runoff treatment
_ cut and fill balance (earthworks)
_ public spaces of landscape quality
_ biodiversity protection and development
_ clean building site
Press
Le Havre city Grand Stade is being set up as a landmark at the entrance to the city. On the 21 hectares of the Soquence railway site. We are project manager for the associated landscape: two railway crossings that provide a link to the neighbouring districts, a retractable entrance into the urban boulevard, and, above all, a 800 slots car park, cars and coaches that bring the spectators to the stadium.
The whole complex is treated as a parking accessible garden: wide knolls planted with willows and grasses and hedges of hedges chant them, the ground is sometimes a simple grass of stony earth, while gabions manage the levelling and offer to wall lizard, as site aboriginal, the habitat he dreamed of in all his sun naps.