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Pierre Chevet Sports Center

France métropolitaine

The Pierre Chevet sports centre, in Croissy-Beaubourg (Seine-et-Marne, France), is the first French public building constructed with hemp-lime concrete blocks. Designed by the Parisian studio Lemoal & Lemoal and completed in 2021, this 380 m² facility houses an exercise room and changing rooms alongside a set of school and sports facilities. Its structure combines timber portal frames in a half-vault, freeing up the play space, with hemp-lime block walls made by Vicat and dry-assembled; the hemp was grown and processed less than 500 km from the site. The blocks are left exposed in the upper areas of the interior to make the most of their acoustic absorption, and the façade is clad with white fibre-cement panels replaceable piece by piece. The hemp-lime concrete provides thermal insulation, hygroscopic regulation and REI 30 fire resistance, as well as storing carbon, making this small municipal facility a European benchmark for bio-based public construction.