Joia Méridia, residential building

Full architectural services / design–build delivery
Competition winner, 2017
Project completed, 2025
Environmental approach
WELL Community Standard certification,
CRQE, NF Habitat HQE and E+C- certification, Smart grid
Total floor areas
69,192 m² GFA
54,723 m² Residential / 800 dwellings
5,638 m² Retail
3,831 m² Hotel
5,000 m² Leisure centre
Car park with over 1,000 spaces
CARRA floor areas
8,694 m² GFA
122 dwellings / 38 social rental units / 26 affordable homeownership units
6 retail units
Client
PITCH PROMOTION
Developer
EPA Nice Éco-Vallée
Design team
Coordinating architect: Lambert Lénack
Architectural team: Sou Fujimoto Atelier Paris
Chartier Dalix Architectes
Anouk Matecki Architectes
Cino Zucchi Architetti
Laisné Roussel
Carta – Reichen et Robert Associés
Landscape architects: Alain Faragou
Engineering consultants: EGIS
Garcia Ingénierie
Public realm: D&A
Credits
Visualisations: My Lucky Pixel
Benefiting from a strategic location and exceptional potential for transformation and urban enhancement, Joia Méridia is intended to become the central hub of the Nice Éco-Vallée urban technopole: a welcoming, comfortable, and innovative neighbourhood.
With a strong emphasis on housing and local retail, the project seeks to rethink and reinterpret the city of Nice for the 21st century, endowing it with a distinct identity and an authentic Mediterranean character, in dialogue with the historic city.
Over a six-year period, we have been commissioned by the EPA Nice Éco-Vallée, the development authority, to deliver this new district, addressing key challenges in environmental and social innovation, as well as urban vitality.
As part of the development of a 73,500 m² GFA macro-lot, we will deliver 122 housing units and 6 retail spaces.
Both a point of architectural reference and, above all, a new place to live, this mixed-use district—designed to offer a high quality of use—will set a benchmark in terms of environmental performance. It forms part of the ÉcoCité and smart grid initiatives promoted by the Nice Côte d’Azur Metropolitan Authority and the EPA Nice Éco-Vallée within the Méridia ZAC and across the Nice Éco-Vallée territory.



