The Olympic and Paralympic village
The Olympic and Paralympic Village will house the athletes during the Paris 2024 Games. In addition to providing athletes with the best service possible, the Village is also designed to deliver a new part of the city, mirroring Paris 2024’s exemplary environmental standards for the people of Seine Saint Denis.
The consortiums that will build the Olympic and Paralympic Village submitted their bids to SOLIDEO (the company tasked with delivering the Olympic facilities) during a consultation that began in March 2019. The images of the selected project capture Paris 2024’s vision: the Village will be built to pioneering environmental standards, meet athletes’ requirements during the Games and benefit the community for years to come.
The Village, conceived in partnership with the athletes
Paris 2024 could not leave the athletes out of the conception of the Olympic and Paralympic Village. Several athletes from the 5 continents had the opportunity to share their vision of the ideal Village. Managed by the Athletes’ Commission of Paris 2024, a manifesto summarizing their ideas and demands, and will guide the arrangements of the area, building a Village by athletes, for athletes.
The Olympic and Paralympic Village: a few facts and figures
The Village will span parts of three cities: Saint-Denis, Saint Ouen and L'Île-Saint-Denis. It will accommodate 14,250 athletes during the Olympic Games, and 8,000 during the Paralympic Games. Up to 60,000 meals will be served each day, and a medical clinic will be available at all times for the athletes. After the Games, the Village will become a neighbourhood with:
- 2,500 new homes
- One student residence
- One hotel
- A three-hectare landscaped park
- About seven hectares of gardens and parks
- 120,000 sqm of offices and city services
- 3,200 sqm of neighbourhood shops
Legacy: The city of the future
Beyond the buildings’ modern looks, it was the commitments matching Paris 2024’s vision for a low-carbon Games and sound financial stewardship that tipped the balance in favour of the winning bid. The Village will meet Paris 2024’s and SOLIDEO’s requirements regarding environmental excellence, and the goal is to design and deliver a neighbourhood reflecting urban spaces as we envision them in 2050:
- It will help to protect and foster biodiversity (with rooftops built to house insects and birds, enclosures with openings for small animals to pass through, etc.);
- The carbon-emissions budget will help to achieve the goals in Paris’s Climate Plan and stay on track for carbon neutrality in 2050, for example using wood and other organically-sourced materials;
- It will help to adapt the city to the climate in 2050, with features that will accommodate and mitigate the effects of climate change (surfacings, plants and water in public areas, etc.).
After the Games, the operators will start repurposing the Village’s residential units in November 2024. They will hand over a new, eco-responsible, functional neighbourhood, which will blend into the city of the future in 2025.
