Architects:NBJ architectes

Area :850 m²

Year :2023

Photographs :Jean Luc GIROD

Study Phase : NAS Architectes

Contracting Authority : Port of Sète – Occitanie Region

Collaboration : COLAS company. Public works company

Collaborators : Quentin BRION

City : Sète

Country : France

The new project of the nautical pole of Sète, is located at the end of the mole St Louis. It is intended to be used by local nautical associations and companies. The building, made of simple and sober forms, is built in concrete to ensure durability. This project was realized in a will of reflection of materials and short circuits through the reuse of oyster shells for the floor covering. The product taking the name of Colstab Ostréa.

The nautical pole is located in an emblematic site at the end of the Saint Louis mole in the port of Sète. With multiple uses for associations, the Société Nautique de Sète (SNS) and the SNSM, it ensures the necessary functionality by grouping together nautical activities in its base to accommodate office and social spaces on the upper floor. By its positioning and its materiality, the project aims to blend into the landscape while revealing it. It is from the reception room, which opens onto a vast terrace, that the distant horizon is revealed.