The Eiffel Ferry Boat Terminal

As for a train station, a modern riverboat terminal has to mix multiple identities and urban functions in one structure: retails, restaurants, cultural events.  The new Vedettes de Paris Riverboat Terminal, where the bateaux mouches start their trips on the Seine, is a moment to create a highly sustainable and engaging development for Paris’s citizens and tourists. It is a creation of a contemporary structure that sees, and can be seen. 

The project is composed of two independent floating platforms able to merge, hosting large scale events.

The purpose of the project is to reinterpret the invariants of the past with a contemporary logic. It is inspired by «La Belle Epoque» period. Les Vedettes de Paris became a destination: a lookout on Paris, stable, solid, immovable. The raised platform can accommodate all the events of the city. A flexible space offered to the urban imagination, the dynamics of a city, a territory of possibles.

credits

Architect: Clement Blanchet Architecture
Client: Vedettes de Paris
Nature of the operation: Private competition. 2nd place
Realised in: 2015
Site: Port de Suffren, Paris
Programme: 3,500m²
Budget: 10 Millions Euros

TEAM COMPOSITION

Naval Architect: Romain Scolari
Engineering: Bollinger + Grohmann et Pandora Marine
Scenography: dUCKS scéno
Facades and sustainability: Staff Planète & VS-A