With a surface area of roughly 23,000 m², the shopping centre is part of the property complex accompanying the Stade Vélodrome football stadium in Marseille. Designed by two firms of architects, Benoy and Didier Rogeon, it will incorporate a department store, a hypermarket, numerous medium-size retail outlets and local traders.
It will consist of two buildings (the main building and the Michelet building) on either side of an avenue open to the outside and covered by a canopy protecting it from bad weather and constituting a fifth facade. The canopy, constructed in glass on a steel structure, will be “draped” over the shopping centre and its curved forms will partly hang down over the facades. The avenue opening to the outside will function as a shopping street with corner entrances offering views of all the shopping floors in the centre.
The project is in line with the principles of construction durable and will seek the BREEAM® Excellent label and C2C (“cradle to cradle”) certification, which is based on the precepts of the circular economy: zero pollution and 100% recycling.