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The Ilot Pasteur: an Urban Game of Tetris

by Milena Radoman
The Pasteur Island – Ilot Pasteur - one of the last remaining SNCF abandoned grounds, comprises
10 programmes covering an area of 118,000 m². The cost of the works was estimated at €341 million.

"Only in Monaco would you see something like The bridge structure with a steel framework did everything we could to prevent any noise
this! We've got 10 programmes on an unusual required four large metal lattice girders for each and not disturb the neighbourhood, notably
plot of railway wasteland, 250 metres long and span to form the skeleton of the building. That's by installing 6-metre-high acoustic walls’’.
30 metres wide" enthuses architect François as many tonnes of steel as the Eiffel Tower...
Lallemand, who is working with Christian Curau Another achievement: ‘‘At certain times, the Intelligent building modelling
on the 118,000 m² development. His company, site looked like an unbelievable cathedral. We A small technological revolution: the architects
Square, won the town planning bid 11 years used up-down technical solutions: we were in charge of the project and the partners in
ago and has since been working on this huge building at the top while we were working at the project management team set up a unit to
project, which includes a secondary school the bottom’’, says the architect, recalling that co-produce the 3D Building Information Model
for 1,500 pupils, a 300-seat amphitheatre, a the road passed at an altitude of around 22 (BIM). ‘‘We were the first in the Principality
gymnasium, a swimming pool, a media library, metres at sea level, we went down to minus to work with BIM processes on an intelligent
nearly 8,000 m² of office space, a 1,500-seat 17 and went back up to +60... Time was model of the building. We built it digitally
multi-purpose hall (the size of an Olympic short: after preparatory work, the site, which before constructing it in real life,’’ explains
swimming pool!), a waste sorting centre for started in 2019, suffered a few delays due to François Lallemand, who is delighted with this
recycled urban waste, a mail sorting centre changes in the programme and an invitation development in his profession. ‘‘An immense
and a 900-space car park. to tender that was declared unsuccessful. database enables architects and engineers to
work on the same digital model. For example,
the ‘‘fluid’’ model includes everything that
makes the building function (electricity,
ventilation, heating, water, drainage) and
everything is calculated in real time. The
advantage is that we can create computer-
generated images and walk around the model
like a video game...’’.
At the end of the project, the Public Works
Department will have a copy of this model
showing everything that has been done on the
Pasteur block. ‘‘If you want to change a light
bulb, all you have to do is click on it and the
associated technical data sheet will appear.
It's a giant instruction manual that's essential
for operation. For decades, these documents
© WDGPhoto - Square François Lallemand Architecte With BIM, you have the building in miniature
of executed works were delivered in hundreds
of boxes containing all the building plans...

in your pocket!’’ Even better, the BIM model
of the Charles-III secondary school includes
horizontal and vertical movement, lifts and
emergency equipment such as dry columns

‘‘The idea is to be able to engage emergency
Dans un jeu de mécano, l’opération Pasteur contribue de facto à la ré-organisation du territoire monégasque. En effet, le transfert for connecting fire hoses in the event of a fire.
de l’Espace Léo Ferré permettra d’agrandir le Centre Commercial de Fontvieille, et celui du collège Charles III permettra de services as effectively and quickly as possible.
réaménager le quartier de l’Annonciade. So we know where the fire is burning, but above
Like a Meccano construction game, the Pasteur operation is a de facto contribution in reorganising the Monegasque territory.
The transfer of the Espace Léo Ferré will mean that the Fontvieille shopping centre can be enlarged, while the transfer of the all we know how to get there,’’ Lieutenant-
Charles III secondary school will enable the Annonciade district to be redeveloped. Colonel Yvrard, Chief Officer of Monaco's fire
The first mixed concrete and steel structure The consultation was extended to French and service, told Monaco-Matin. ‘‘It's a world-first
in Monaco Spanish companies, and in the end it was Fayat to have dynamically connected a fire detection
The project involves a number of specific that took charge of this very special project. system to a digital model, with direct relay of
technical features. ‘‘It's the first time we've And there was a crucial constraint for a major information to the emergency services,’’ Adrien
built a mixed concrete and steel structure building project in the heart of an industrial Le Bret, Deputy Director of the Department of
in Monaco,’’ continues François Lallemand. and business district: avoiding nuisance. ‘‘We Public Works, told the press.

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