Cité des Affaires de l’Afrique de l’Ouest

Eco-city in Senegal

Urban design
Dakar Sénégal
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The airport and the Peninsula
The airport is the last large free space on the Cap-Vert Peninsula. Urban development has ceased at the walls along its runways.
This void is an excellent opportunity for creating an urban hub homologous to the plateau in the north of the Peninsula.
The project has two goals:
Create an emblematic city symbolised by the Cité des Affaires de l'Afrique de l'Ouest
Ensure a harmonious link with the surrounding districts by prolonging the traditional city.

Symbols
The site of the air terminal, the African Renaissance Monument and the Collines des Mamelles lighthouse are the strong points of the broad landscape of the airport.
Seen from the terminal, these familiar places have remained in the memories of the millions of users of the airport for many years now.
To preserve that vision in the future project, we propose the creation of a symbolic axis linking the two existing towers at the African Renaissance Monument.

The green plan
Due to the necessities of its function, this once-wooded territory has become a dry, arid plateau.
For us, creating a 600-ha development here requires a preliminary act to repair this situation while at the same time structuring the future urban plan.
The core of it must be a forest.
The Central Park covering some thirty hectares will be an urban attractor on the scale of the entire capital, like Central Park in New York.

Division of districts
The 597-ha site is divided into seven districts:
Central Park is delimited by Park Avenues North and South and the Parkway to the east.
To the west it will house the commercial and leisure hub.
The valley built around the symbolic axis will be home to the Cité des Affaires.
Four districts – Northwest, Northeast, Southwest and Southeast – provide the connections with the project environment. Each of these districts will have its own identity.
The East Runway is the seventh district. Its central part will house the “campus”: university, research, health, etc.


Studies : 2018

Urban Development Master Plan for the Cité des Affaires de l'Afrique de l'Ouest in Dakar.
• Definition of an overall development strategy
• Drawing up an Urban Development Master Plan
• Finalisation of the Master Plan and proposal of an action plan

Project Owner
CDG / CDC / APIX - SA

Project Supervision
Reichen et Robert & Associés International
Landscaping: TER
Technical Design Office, mobility and urban design: Roland Ribi & Associés
Planner: Polyprogramme

Area
Site area: 600 ha
Subdivided area: 435 ha (73%)
Net floor area developed: 4,150,000 m²
Floor Area Ratio: 0.7
1- CENTRAL PARK: 84 ha
2- CITÉ DES AFFAIRES: 37 ha
3- NORTHWEST: 46 ha
4- NORTHEAST: 45 ha
5- SOUTHWEST: 79 ha
6- SOUTHEAST: 132 ha
7- EAST RUNWAY: 174 ha
TOTAL, DISTRICTS: 597 ha

Perspectives
Kaupunki

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Park Avenues
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Park Avenues
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Piste 21 : le pôle de commerces et de loisirs
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la ville traditionnelle
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maisons individuelles : la villa
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les symboles du lieu
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le plan de référence
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le plan vert
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perspective vue aérienne

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