Wellbeing centre, Caen

Loci anima has re-imagined the attractiveness of downtown Caen with the desire to build the heritage of tomorrow with a mixed, healthy and sustainable city. The agency imagines a pole dedicated to well-being and refreshments, an urban articulation to the convergence of flows where a bit of fantasy also blows.

Program	Gourmet hall, shops, housing, hotel
Site	Place de la République, Caen
Floor Area	13 000 m2
Cost of construction	5 120 000 €
Timetable	2016
Project Owner	Bouygues Immobilier

This new pole dedicated to refreshments and well-being aims to boost the attractiveness of the city center of Caen. It is based on contemporary precepts such as resilience and civic politeness by offering a garden for the benefit of all. It also dramatizes its market offer inside without imposing it on its external environment. Finally, it strengthens the identity of the city by its iconic wave form which comes lightly to dishevel the city of a hundred steeples and blows a breeze of renewal through it.