EGA Stockholm welcomed friends and industry colleagues this wednesday for a talk about the ongoing work with the Olympic Village for Paris 2024.
We have been general architects for one part of the athletic village in Paris and have designed two of the buildings in detail. The athletes’ village is a pilot project with high ambitions regardning social and ecological sustainability. The city takes the opportunity to raise socially vulnerable areas with the investment for the Olympics, and the construction process allows for “double building permits” to convert the buildings to other functions after the Olympics. The goal is to create a sustainable eco-district that will long after the games are finished.
The event included French cheese, macarons and a demonstration of the Olympic project by Erik. This was followed by a discussion on innovative urban development methods, the building permit process and Sweden’s application for the 2030 Olympics.
Our learnings from working with the Paris Olympics shred light on both challenges and opportunities with hosting such an event – on innovative methods and building authorisation processes and how to build for a sustainable event. How will we provide enough housing for the event with a slowing constructing industry and what building regulations will have to be put in place?
The topic is especially relevant today, as the City of Stockholm opens up about its ambitions to host Winter Olympics 2030.