Article source: Sylvain GIACHINO Architecte

The new indoor sports and conference centre in Tignes is an extraordinary project that meets the ambitious challenge of providing an exceptional facility very discreetly, without fuss. Located in a restricted site, its single stone and glass façade mirrors the majestic mountain and lake landscape around Tignes. The building’s 8,300 m2 are buried under a planted roof, visible from all angles, which will become a flowery meadow in summer and a young children’s ski area in winter.

Image Courtesy © greg mistral

• Architects: Sylvain GIACHINO Architecte & Atelier Plexus architects
• Project: Indoor sports centre and Conference centre
• Location: Tignespace, France
• Photography: Simon Boudet, andy parant, greg mistral
• Client: Commune de Tignes
• Project Owner’s representative: SAS Société d’Aménagement de la Savoie
• Structures: ETBA
• Services installations: ABAC
• Roads, utility networks, external works & landscaping: GEODE
• Construction works management consultants: 2CGB
• Construction economist: CUBIC
• High Environmental Quality consultants: Etamine
• Acoustics consultants: In Situ
• Geotechnical consultants: Hydrogéotechnique, Building control consultants, Health, Safety & Environmental
• Protection consultants: DEKRA
• Scenographic designer: Serge Matry
• Area: 8 300 m2
• Cost: 16 338 460 €HT
• Date of completion: Juin 2013
• Perspective artist: Les Nouveaux Studios
• Translation: Peter Mc Cavana