Research Cluster 15 15.8 The Bartlett School of Architecture 2014
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15.10 Figs. 15.8 – 15.10 Marta Kruger ‘Where you end, we begin: A project for 13280 Marseillais’. A project that aims to give shelter to almost 14000 people, by proposing 3500 social housing units for the city of Marseille. Adopting two residential archetypes, a mat of courtyard houses and a series of slabs oriented in two different directions, the aim is to give the intervention a definite and recognisable form. It starts as an act of re-appropriation of the formerly industrial areas of the port. Subtracting a portion of that space from its original whole and transforming it into a new residential quartier, the project creates a new defined space with recognisable boundaries. Fig. 15.11 Samuel Lozeau-Laprise ‘Shifting Landscapes: The port of Marseille-Fos’. The project attempts to bring a new vision to urban design by looking at the port from a sea 66
perspective. It proposes a shift in the port landscape of Marseille by moving all industrial activities to Fos-sur-Mer from the centre of the city. This whole process creates a constant conflictual exchange and control between the land and the sea from a legal reconfiguration of space to the movement of micro particles of soil. These are planned operations that gravitate within the complex stratum of mechanism and protocols, where the port is proposed not as a simple drop-off point for cargo, but as a fully integrated territorial entity.