Media Village

Located in Seine-Saint-Denis, the Media Village will be home to around 4,000 journalists during the Paris 2024 Games. From 2025, the site will become a neighbourhood of 1,300 homes with 1,000 m² of local shops and educational and sports facilities. The project aims to be carbon neutral by 2050. It includes 518 houses and 396 parking spaces. Divided into six lots according to the garden city principle, the architectural coherence is expressed through the dominant use of solid brick and the buildings' morphological diversity. It includes a high proportion of landscaped areas, with planting in the open ground and on flat roofs.

The six building lots have a reinforced concrete post-and-beam structure, some with a basement level. Embedded strips form the beams to avoid overhangs to ensure greater flexibility. A maximum grid of 3.8m for the embedded strips and 5.5m for the concrete floor slabs is used to ensure the slab is thin, and Hoffmann cement is used. Hoffmann cement makes it possible to produce very low-carbon concrete. Re-use floors are needed to combine the grid of residential units at the top with the grid of car parks or commercial premises at the base.