Centrale Marseille engineering school
At a time when the limits between the real and the digital world become increasingly blurred and where the exchanges are in consequence more complex, the creation of a real place where the human is revealed seems crucial.
The project focuses primarily on the building of Ecole Centrale Marseille, with its robust architecture and its history of perpetual renewal. The Ecole Centrale Marseille is part of a campus where the size of the 70s infrastructure is flagrant, but in the same time where the human is no longer at the heart of the device.
The MC2 aims to be the simple insertion of a place that allows some domesticity. It is the metaphor of the perfect form which is the sphere: a place that at the same time gathers and diffuses.
Rather than limiting and dividing the rehabilitation of the building layer by layer, the sphere allows the manipulation of the floor plans, in order to reconnect them. It generates a multitude of three-dimensional trajectories, a loop of knowledge that aspires the programming and the diffuses throughout the school.
Before
Credits
Architect: Clément Blanchet Architecture
Client: Centrale Marseille school
Nature of the operation: Competition
Realised in: 2017
Site: Marseille, France
Program: Education
Budget: NC
team composition
Scenography: dUCKS Scéno
Acoustics: Jean-Paul Lamoureux
Engineers: Bollinger + Grohmann