Hexagone at Luminy University Campus in Marseille
Hexagone, Marseille Library and Learning Center, Architecture Development, Images
Hexagone at Luminy University Campus in Marseille
Luminy University Campus Building Development in France – design by Rémy Marciano Architecte
25 Mar 2019
Hexagone at Luminy University Campus
Design: Rémy Marciano Architecte
Location: Marseille, France
Hexagone
Transforming the original 1960’s building into a ?learning center? offers a new venue for student life, meeting and sharing on this Marseilles campus. The site is visually captivating, one of chiseled stone where the wild landscape of the Calanques penetrates into the university campus and offers a context conducive to reading and dreaming, with the heady odor of pine groves wafting about.
A example of modern archeology, the building?s preserved and transformed existing concrete floors reveal traces of human hands, and the passage of time, restoring meaning and highlighting the material.
A milky white skin envelops the Hexagone and its extensions, the reinvented newly chiseled landscape of porosity and transparency allows light to flood into the spaces. The topography of the site is as if placed on stage with a stratified series of bleachers extending from the reception area all the way to the patio at the heart of the building.
The Hexagone integrates a large university library, a screening room, an open space, a coffee bar and services targeting student needs. This ?learning center? is an open and welcoming place pri...
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