WINNING PROJECT
4 FINALIST PROJECTS
rdai architecture
aw2 architecture
Selected teams
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- An exceptional site
The Pointe du Bout in the municipality of Trois Îlets overlooks the bay of Fort-de-France. The project site faces the capital of Martinique and reveals an exceptional panorama.
Before being a popular seaside destination, the village was inhabited by farmers and potters since the 17th century, producing cocoa, tobacco, sugar, rum and pottery, which were then exported to metropolitan France. At the far end of the site, there is a former military fort erected to cope with the incessant incursions of the British in the 17th century. It has been classified as a historical monument in 2014 and its enhancement will be part of the competition.
Since the 1960s, tourism has intensified and so has the urbanization of the peninsula. The Pointe du Bout was one of the first bathing areas developed in the form of successive lagoons. On the plot, one of the most beautiful in Martinique, was the Hotel Le Meridien, the emblematic hotel of the island. Too old, it closed its doors more than 10 years ago before being demolished. This gap was initially to be filled by the reconstruction of 300 rooms before Leader Hotels won the call for projects.
Paradoxically, the construction of this plot, currently enclosed in an urbanized area, will have to participate in the protection of wooded areas.
- Imagining one of the most emblematic hotels
in the CaribbeanCreated in 1986 by Daniel Arnoux and Patrick Vial-Collet, the Leader Hotels group is one of the few independent hotel chains in the French Caribbean. Owner of five hotels in Guadeloupe, including La Toubana (5 stars) and La Creole (4 stars), the group has established itself as a major player in the high-end hotel business in the French West Indies.
Relying on its platform "Des Hôtels et des Iles" created in 1990, the group manages the marketing, e-Marketing and promotion of 22 Caribbean hotels in Europe, the United States, Canada and Latin America.
Wishing to live up to this exceptional site, the group decided to launch an architectural competition to design the first 5☆ hotel in Martinique, and to make it one of the most exceptional hotels in the Caribbean.
The objective of this competition is also for them to question the future of the hotel industry with regard to growing environmental issues.
Inspired by the Creole Caribbean identity and proposing a new way of living that can find a more general echo in the design of ecological housing on the island, the project should embody an innovative design of the hotel of tomorrow, integrating a low carbon construction, and offering for example solutions for rainwater harvesting and production of renewable energy.
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