Nausicaá, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
Nausicaá, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
Nausicaá is Europe’s largest aquarium and a unique center of scientific discovery. For visitors, it’s a mesmerising journey into the underwater home of more than 1,600 marine species. Dive through a massive wave as an escalator takes you to the depths of the sea and then rise to the surface in a submarine-like capsule elevator.
BUILDING FACTS
- Location: Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
- Building extension inaugurated: 2018
- Exhibition area: 10,000 sqm
- Building type: Aquarium
- Number of marine species: 1,600
- Number of visitors annually: 874,000 (2018)
- Building owner: Boulonnais conurbation
- Architect: Jacques Rougerie
- Contractor: VINCI Construction
CHALLENGES
- Create an immersive underwater experience for visitors to the extended aquarium
- Ensure smooth people flow for up to one million annual visitors to the aquarium
- Synchronise the different digital and physical elements of the aquarium journey for a unified visitor experience
SOLUTIONS
- Integrate the escalator journey with the experience
- Custom-design elevators that look and feel like underwater capsules
- Synchronise elevator movements and pace of travel with video material
KONE SOLUTIONS
- 3 KONE TranSys™ 5-tonne elevators
- 1 KONE TravelMaster™ escalator
- 2 KONE TranSys™ freight elevators
- 3 KONE MonoSpace® elevators
