Erik Giudice, Founder and Principal Architect, EGA Erik Giudice Architects: The whole idea of the Athletes’ Village in Paris was to design for the future. The village will be part of this area forever. And for that, we designed buildings that could transform and respond to future inhabitants’ needs.
The Athletes’ Village is a huge project covering three cities, almost 126 acres of land with more than 24,000 athletes and trainers and staff members. The aim of the village was to raise the bar of sustainable architecture and use it as a way to push the boundaries of what’s possible.
There were 40 architects involved across 11 offices. We used Revit from day one. Having an open platform makes it possible to integrate and to share models.
Those are the profiles that will be used for shading the facade.
Revit is a fantastic tool to collaborate and to export into IFC and to share with other disciplines who are not using Revit primarily. The delivery organization requested BIM models at every stage of the project, which made it possible for them to have an overall control of the environmental aspects, such as carbon footprint, biodiversity, and economic aspects.
One big game in this project was to reduce the carbon footprint. And in the Athletes’ Village overall, we were able to reduce by 50%. We integrated solar shading, super insulation, and natural ventilation into the design of the buildings.
The capacity to export our Revit files into IFC made it possible for the industrial contractor to import the files into the production lines, which made it much more efficient.
I think the most magical part is we’re now transforming the buildings for future use. The Athletes’ Village is creating more than 2,000 family homes, student housing, office spaces, and cultural and sport facilities. When people move into the buildings, that’s where you get a real emotion, when it becomes a living neighborhood. It was a really tremendous thing to design something that the people who live there can be proud of.
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