Free Quarters, the Renewal of Saint Charles – Belle de Mai?

Saint Charles Belle de Mai district, 13003 Marseille
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Free Quarters, the Renewal of Saint Charles – Belle de Mai?
Category: Squares, Streets & Neighborhoods / Neighborhoods
Borough : 3ème
Neighborhood Saint Charles – Belle de Mai is beginning a revival with the urban project imagined by the team of architects, town planners, sociologists and landscape architects represented by the Güller Güller and TVK agencies.

Free Quarters, the Renewal of Saint Charles – Belle de Mai, Marseille

Barracks of Muy

For ten years, this team will accompany the City of Marseille on a territory of 140 hectares going from the Saint-Charles train station to the Plombières viaduct and from the railway line to the A7. At the heart of this perimeter, the team will be in charge of converting the site of the Saint Charles barracks (7ha), which includes the emblematic Muy barracks. For the City of Marseille, this project must "be done with": with the inhabitants, with the people who work there, with the associations, with the local actors, with the institutions because tomorrow this district of the city center will also be the main gateway to the metropolis.

The dialogue started in 2014 saw strong mobilization. A number of residents of Belle de Mai had contributed to the consultation and made it possible to construct the specifications, the basis for the work of the teams of urban planning architects. The winning team of the competitive dialogue, Güller Güller / TVK presented the project to be built together during a public meeting on September 19, 2016. In January and February 2017 it was launched at the Belle de Mai Wasteland a participatory exhibition presenting the project as well as discovery walks, notably in the gardens of the Couvent Levat.

For several years, the City of Marseille has affirmed its desire to carry out a large-scale urban reflection on the district of la Saint-Charles station. Motivated by the acquisition of the Belle de Mai barracks and by the confirmation of the arrival of the New Provence-Côte d'Azur Line, the City of Marseille has therefore launched the urban project Quartiers Libres Saint-Charles – Belle of May.

The challenges of the urban project:

Free Quarters, the Renewal of Saint Charles – Belle de Mai, Marseille

Marceau school group & toy library

  • Improve the quality and living environment of residents and users of the Saint-Charles and Belle de Mai districts
  • Make the Metropolitan Station district a new place of economic attractiveness for the City;
  • Create an Urban Development Research Laboratory on new ways of building the city;
  • Ensure the project is successful on a double scale:
  • The long-term future of the city center of Marseille or even of the Metropolis;
  • The dynamic development of the Belle de Mai district through socio-economic and urban levers
    Concretely, it concerns two scales:
  • a wide perimeter of 140 hectares around the barracks
  • a zoomed perimeter of 7 hectares on the Barracks site

The evolution of the consultations and projects can be followed on the site Free Quarters. We already know that the Bordeaux agency Marjan Hessamfar and Joe Vérons associate architects will build the Marceau school group there. Representing a total amount of works of €10,9 million excluding VAT, the equipment will include 20 classes, including eight kindergartens, and a collective reception center for minors.

SOURCES lafriche.org & Free Quarters & lemoniteur.fr
PHOTOS Güller Güller / TVK & Marjan Hessamfar and Joe Verons 
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