The particularity of this hotel project is that it is located at Paris Charles-de-Gaulle airport in Roissy, one of the largest airports in the world. It is therefore intended primarily for a clientele about to travel, between fl ights, and business travellers requiring proximity to the airport.
The land allocated to the project is being developed as part of the master plan for the renewal of Charles-de-Gaulle airport, on a large site fairly close to Roissy Terminal 1, a site known as ‘Pôle Hôtelier’, which will accommodate several hotels and offi  ce buildings.
The various projects have been positioned along an urban axis that will eventually combine a tramway, a dual carriageway on either side of the tramway, and cycle and pedestrian paths. The hotel forecourts will address this axis. 
This organisation of traffi  c is combined with large planted esplanades, forming a lively and attractive axis at the heart of the airport. The diff erent hotels will be able to make the most of this animation by addressing their lobbies and public spaces, including some restaurants, onto this major urban axis.
Our plot is located at the eastern limit of the axis, just before it passes beneath the ‘taxiway’ dedicated to the various aircraft movements before and after take-off . This location at the end of the axis gives the project a high level of visibility, both from the axis itself, but also and above all from the taxiway, where a large proportion of aircraft spend time taxiing.
The project is thereby visible from all sides, both from local traffi  c along the new urban axis, and from the more distant aircraft traffi  c taxiing from north to south along the project, with direct views of its north, east and south façades.
The west façade is bordered by a large pedestrian walkway combined with a green corridor, which links the urban axis with the Pullman forecourt.
This side of the site, more planted and private, also inspired us to imagine a fi nal project where all four facades would be seen and experienced, sometimes by pedestrians, sometimes by aircraft or cars.