Péronne Swimming Pool
Water // 80200 PERONNE
The project
Client: Community of Communes Haute Somme (80)
Programme: Construction of a Sport-Leisure swimming pool
Areas: 2,323 sqm (including 580 sqm of water surface)
Construction value: €5,700,000 excl. tax
Competition winner: 2011
Delivery: 2017
Project team:
Lead architect: COSTE Architectures
ARCADIS: Structural / Electrical / Fire-safety engineering
TUAL: MEP engineering
GD ECO: Quantity surveyor
AVA: Acoustician
CAP TERRE: HQE consultant
PHYTORESTORE: Landscape architect
Photos: Guillaume GUERIN
Project overview
Project overview: The swimming pool is composed of a sports pool, a leisure pool, stands, a toddler pool, a water slide and a wellness area with sauna and hammam.
At the scale of the town, the construction of the Péronne Sports-Leisure swimming pool represents a major challenge for the community and provides an opportunity to strengthen the appeal of the place, while underlining the environmental approach undertaken by the local authority. In our view, the integration of this new facility takes place at three spatial scales:
- at the building scale, through harmonious volumes and landscape treatment perfectly integrated into the setting,
- at the city scale, through a smooth and very legible connection,
- finally at the broader environmental scale, by limiting the ecological footprint of this future facility.
The site is a meadow punctuated with thickets, whose slope leads down to the pond below. The team chose 3 strong urban and architectural objectives:
- integrate and showcase the facility with a coherent landscape treatment;
- take advantage of orientation and siting to design a facility respectful of its environment;
At the scale of the town, the construction of the Péronne Sports-Leisure swimming pool represents a major challenge for the community and provides an opportunity to strengthen the appeal of the place, while underlining the environmental approach undertaken by the local authority. In our view, the integration of this new facility takes place at three spatial scales:
- at the building scale, through harmonious volumes and landscape treatment perfectly integrated into the setting,
- at the city scale, through a smooth and very legible connection,
- finally at the broader environmental scale, by limiting the ecological footprint of this future facility.
The site is a meadow punctuated with thickets, whose slope leads down to the pond below. The team chose 3 strong urban and architectural objectives:
- integrate and showcase the facility with a coherent landscape treatment;
- take advantage of orientation and siting to design a facility respectful of its environment;
- offer an iconic massing in dialogue with the surrounding urban scales.
