La Barquière Housing Project in Marseille, Residential Development, Apartment Building, Photos, French Architecture
La Barquière Housing Project in Marseille
New housing development in southern France ? design by Pietri Architectes
2 Oct 2017
La Barquière Residential Development, Marseille
Location: Marseille, France

Design: Pietri Architectes
New French Housing Development in Marseille, Southern France

photo © Mathieu Ducros
La Barquière is a 62-housing project located in the 9th district of Marseille (France). The urban neighbourhood offers to the project a unique setting. Drawn in keeping with its context, this project respects all the family owner wishes. The owner wanted to keep the old building dated from the 18th century. The existing old building and the wooded environment proximity forced the project to become part of a complex height.
photos © Mathieu Ducros
There is a duality between the two frontages: the first one is angular and the other one is undulating. It presents an opposition of architectural treatments. To the South, a long white frontage full of flowing balconies is slipping all over the apartments oriented to the garden. To the North, the straight and angular frontage is covered by a white-faceted mosaic.
It creates incredible lighting effects and reflects all over the ceramic. These effects will fluctuate day by day, season by season, with view over the sky and the Mediterranean Sea. Like many large Mediterranean port cities, Marseille is...