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Mareterra: a New Eco-district in 2025

With the new land extension, Monaco is bestowing itself with a new residential district and a marina.
This eco-district now awaits its residents, the Mareterriens.
LA CONFIANCE EN L’AVENIR,
“The new district of Mareterra is part of the DEPUIS 1977
continued tradition of the expansion of Monaco’s
territory, the first land extension being in 1907,”
emphasises Séverine Canis-Froidefond, who goes
back over the genesis of this new, six-hectare site
and how it came to be finalised: “At the end of the
2000s, there was already a reasonable need for
a land extension, given the socio-demographic
forecasts that were carried out. The main aim of
the project was to create a true eco-district that LTP TECHNOLOGIES, PARTENAIRE DE VOTRE
would offer Monégasques and residents new
open spaces on the coast and new cityscapes. ENTREPRISE DANS TOUS LES SECTEURS
The area, which will bring a new façade to the
shoreline, must be integrated into the urban DE LA TRANSFORMATION NUMÉRIQUE.
landscape of the Principality.”
Le Renzo
Pedestrian district
After being put out to tender in 2006, the first, Michel Desvigne and Renzo Piano, will also include coastal walkway from the new port to the Grimaldi
10-hectare land extension project was cancelled an extension to the Grimaldi Forum, the cultural Forum, will link to Larvotto beach, which has
due to the 2008 financial crisis. In 2013, another, and congress centre of Monaco, as well as 3,000 also been updated by Renzo Piano. The hillside
smaller project was put forward by Prince Albert m² of shops. The maritime infrastructure will be will be planted with trees, bushes and flowering
II, resulting in Mareterra, “a mostly pedestrian built by construction multinational, Bouygues shrubs. “Public gardens with a predominantly
district, including an abundant park, a small Travaux Publics. Mediterranean selection of vegetation will form
port, a shoreline promenade, an underground car It is a true new district that will come to life in a direct connection to the city and will evoke the
park and significant residential and commercial 2024/25, as Denis Valode explains: “The project Monaco of the 1950s, before the construction
development,” explains SAM L’Anse du Portier, needs to embrace different topologies, distinct of the Grimaldi Forum (a reminder of the Hall du
the company responsible for its creation. There characteristics and be multifunctional, all whilst Centenaire),” adds the DPUM Director.
will be 60,000 m² of upmarket housing, including respecting the marine environment.” On the upper Vidéosurveillance Contrôle Réseaux data Câblage
some 15 villas of between 1,500 m² and 2,000 m², square, named Princesse Gabriella, Alexander Eco-district Visioconférence d’accès 10/100/1000 et wifi courants faibles
as well as Le Renzo, which will be ship-shaped, Calder’s masterpiece, uatre ances, will be “The project respects a particularly demanding
housing single-storey residences, as well as displayed, a piece acquired by Prince Rainier III environmental remit, specially in relation to the
duplexes, triplexes and a four-storey penthouse, and Princess Grace of Monaco in 1966. The marine environment and the neighbouring marine
plus a seawater swimming pool named the Piscine little 15-berth marina, aka Le Petit Portier, will reserves. SAM LAnse du Portier has made every
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Princess Charlene. This new eco-district, designed be surrounded by a promenade of shops and effort to ‘bring compatibility where there was
by three big names in architecture, Denis Valode, restaurants. The esplanade Prince Jacques, a none – building onto the sea, whilst protecting the
environment,’ and to make Mareterra into a district
in which every little detail has been thought out
in terms of very high quality and sustainability,”
assures the company responsible for the project.
In order to meet these green-fingered
requirements, it was necessary to integrate Domotique Sécurité informatique Communications unifiées Téléphonie voix sur IP
different environmentally-friendly technologies, Audiovisuel et électronique Centre de contacts Systèmes d'enregistrements
in particular geothermal heating with sea water:
«Huge heat pumps use the calories of seawater
to generate both heat (in winter) and cold (in
summer),» specifies SAM L’Anse du Portier. Dans le cadre des aides "PLAN BLEU" pour la relance économique © MITI.mc / C. Lenoir
In addition, nearly 200 charging systems for
electric vehicles are planned (including 20% LTP est partenaire technologique agréé de
public spaces) with the possibility of equipping
Vue drone sud, 31 août 2021 every parking place.

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