Vinci Construction France receives the National Award of Wood Construction 2016

The 5^th edition of the National Award of Wood Construction has seen Arbonis, a subsidiary company of Vinci Construction France specialized in the wood construction concept, as a winner of the first prize in the “Buildings & Various Project Developments” for the production of the covered skating rink of the town of Samoëns in Haute-Savoie.

Designed by Richard Plotter Architecture agency and its office for wood design Arborescence, the skating rink of Samoëns houses a covered area of more than 3 140 sq meter. It tops with two irregular, dissymmetrical and sloping roof. The structure, entirely done with spruce, is made of glue-laminated beams which rests on top of the posts “boxes” with variable-inertia of arborescence . This method confers to the artwork a feeling of lightness and answers perfectly to the environmental requirements and architectural design laid out by the town of Samoëns.

Revolving around a scheme of crossed sheds without knots, the frame prohibits the accumulation of snow in winter and brings light. For its production, Arbonis used 380 cube meter of wood and had made the choice of pre-assembling on the ground and on-site the elements of structure and then lifted the whole artifact of around 15 tons. A hidden ceiling of openwork wooden blades of 3 150 sq meter had also been created.