REDEVELOPMENT OF A PORT SITE

The project reveals the desire to create a built facade to support academic activities and mark the boundary between the town and the port’s "industrial" activities.

Fishing activity is preserved - the building is built on piles and is used as a covered market for the fishermen. The implementation of a walkway designed as a suspended gallery retains urban continuity and a unitary architectural image in the Napoleon harbour.

The limited footprint and the need to provide maximum space for fishing activity led us to consider using the first floor as the ground level of the building. This ground level is distributed by the suspended public walkway. The lobby of the IUP/IUT (professional and technical university institute) is therefore above ground level, producing an opening over the harbour and framing the stairs which ascend from the public walkway.
The suspended lobby and grand staircase form the starting signal of the urban development of the harbour.

The purpose of the building, halio-marine biochemistry, entails complex treatment of networks: the design of clean rooms, radioactivity rooms, laboratories with benches, rooms for research, etc.