Article source: NOMADE Architects

NOMADE architects recently delivered the project for rehabilitation and extension of the “Hippodrome de la Baie racecourse in Yffiniac”, a few kilometers from the downtown Saint-Brieuc, in Brittany. NOMADE architects developed a unique context-sensitive yet singular design to renovate this structure, establishing a dynamic dialogue between the old and the new.

Image Courtesy © Patrick Miara

• Architects: NOMADE Architects
• Project: Hippodrome de la Baie
• Location: Yffiniac, France
• Photography: Patrick Miara
• Contract management: Saint-Brieuc Conurbation / Saint-BrieucAgglomération
• Competition: 2012
• Delivery: 2015
• Duration of the operation: 14 months
• Consultancy: Basic contract management on behalf of the public authority + diagnostic
• Net internal surface area / net useful area: 1 095 m² 912 m²
• Total cost of the building work: 3,08 M € HT
• Partners: BETEREM ingénierie
• Performance rating: LABEL BBC, RT 2012

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