Learning from Marseille
Competition Team
Lucile Ado (FR), architect urbanist
Natalia Vera Vigaray (ES), architect
Patxi Martin Dominguez (ES), architect
Josep Garriga Tarrés (ES), architect
Marine Declève (BE), urbanist
Europan 15 Marseille (FR)
runner-up
Team Point of View
Our project mobilizes a vision of a productive city that reverses consumption trends. It slows down the pace and is no longer linked to the notion of employment, but to work as an activity that gives us a place in society in respect with our vital needs to find a home, feed and reproduce itself. The Apprenticeship Program for Urban Renewal, or APRU, promotes the exchange of technical know-how related to the improvement of the built environment. Travels, teamwork and workshops aim to put production back on the human side and to integrate art into everyday life. This inversion is a cultural change that involves an educational project suggesting that garbage does not go to the sea but comes from the sea and that we can go to the waste management centre just like we go to the supermarket (Collective action for the creation of PARU).
Jury Point of View
The team closely links the urban renewal project to apprenticeship and training programs open to residents in landscaping, sustainable construction and waste management. On the spatial and architectural side, the project proposes new Mediterranean typologies combining housing and workspaces.
