Europa City

Gonesse, France

This strong link in the Grand Paris project was to bring together five universes around the creative diversity of the European continent.

This project anticipated new consumption practices and cultural recreation. Rather than answer “infrastructure” or even “building”, we proposed a spatial device.

The soil is the structuring element of the project. It covers and contains, binds, deforms and becomes a meeting place. In reality, it stages the different scales of the project.

It is therefore a planning tool. An open scenario. A space of transition between urban, peri-urban and agricultural situations. A bridge connecting two pieces of territory cut by infrastructure.

Program
Design study for a shopping and leisure centre

Location
Europa City
Gonesse, France

Schedule
Competition: 2008

Client
Immochan

Project management
Lead architect: Hamonic+Masson & Associés

Engineering
Environmental: Franck Boutté

Floor Area
250,000 m² of retail + 150,000 m² of leisure + 30,000 m² of hotel-restaurants + 182,000 m² of green spaces + 187,500 m² of landscaped car parks