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The compound identity of Marseille is an inextricable\u00a0interweaving of myth, reality, seen and unseen \u2013\u00a0a modernist construct: the industrial revolution,\u00a0the continuous flux of migration, its colonial past,\u00a0and the turbulence caused by inequality have all\u00a0contributed to the creation of a unique image of\u00a0the \u2018phocaean city\u2019. Each of these temporal imprints\u00a0inherits a modernism that was never finished or\u00a0achieved, which collectively illustrate the cultural\u00a0entanglement of past and present Marseille, and\u00a0perhaps also the morass of its cultural politics. By\u00a0making this complex cultural identity accessible and\u00a0the unseen seen, it could become an instrument of progress informing the cultural present, enriching the city and its inhabitants.<\/h6>\n<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"01](\"https:\/\/unit-21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/01-6-copy.jpg\")
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nMarseille is a city in which fact, fiction, insiders and the continuum of outsiders endlessly pass through each other in a manner which reinforces rather than dilutes its identity. This both informs and is irrelevant to the uplifting direct encounter with everyday Marseille, the city of the eternal present.<\/h6>\nThe demerit of this experiential reality is that it masks the often unseen complex, cultural reservoir.<\/h6>\nThe topography of Marseille together with the imprint of its various cities, past and present, have resulted in a language of the \u2018Scenographic\u2019, which makes the city perceptually memorable and easy to use. The visual relationship between the enclosing mountain range, sea, port and city monuments experienced while walking in the city foreshortens physical and temporal distances. This analysis is critical to the design development of the project; the idea of the scenographic and visual navigability is extended into the new building.<\/h6>\n<\/h6>\n
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\nThis project looks at how a selection of the invisible histories might contribute to a fuller understanding of the identity of Marseille. It documents and qualitatively evaluates a series of urban stepping stones along La Voie Historique; the historic axis of Massalia\u2019s ancient road, founded and built upon by the ancient Greeks and Romans, later to became a disconnected hinterland at the epicentre of Marseille and a \u2018cultural route\u2019 curated by city guidebooks and the tourist information office.<\/h6>\nLa Voie Historique will be used as the framework for a non-chronological recitation of significant moments of inhabitation: from its origin point, Les Jardin des Vestiges [1967], to the mid point, L\u2019\u00c9glise des Accoules [1720], to the intersection of Le Panier [1944], to the end point, Fort Saint Jean [2013]. By retracing imprinted time from historical documents, images and texts and examining how these physical residues have persisted, we may better understand and critically analyse the city\u2019s genesis, fragmentation and cultural evolution.<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n
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The compound identity of Marseille is an inextricable\u00a0interweaving of myth, reality, seen and unseen \u2013\u00a0a modernist construct: the industrial revolution,\u00a0the continuous flux of migration, its colonial past,\u00a0and the turbulence caused by inequality have all\u00a0contributed to the creation of a unique image of\u00a0the \u2018phocaean city\u2019. Each of these temporal imprints\u00a0inherits a modernism that was never finished or\u00a0achieved, which collectively illustrate the cultural\u00a0entanglement of past and present Marseille, and\u00a0perhaps also the morass of its cultural politics. By\u00a0making this complex cultural identity accessible and\u00a0the unseen seen, it could become an instrument of progress informing the cultural present, enriching the city and its inhabitants.<\/h6>\n<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nMarseille is a city in which fact, fiction, insiders and the continuum of outsiders endlessly pass through each other in a manner which reinforces rather than dilutes its identity. This both informs and is irrelevant to the uplifting direct encounter with everyday Marseille, the city of the eternal present.<\/h6>\nThe demerit of this experiential reality is that it masks the often unseen complex, cultural reservoir.<\/h6>\nThe topography of Marseille together with the imprint of its various cities, past and present, have resulted in a language of the \u2018Scenographic\u2019, which makes the city perceptually memorable and easy to use. The visual relationship between the enclosing mountain range, sea, port and city monuments experienced while walking in the city foreshortens physical and temporal distances. This analysis is critical to the design development of the project; the idea of the scenographic and visual navigability is extended into the new building.<\/h6>\n<\/h6>\n
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\nThis project looks at how a selection of the invisible histories might contribute to a fuller understanding of the identity of Marseille. It documents and qualitatively evaluates a series of urban stepping stones along La Voie Historique; the historic axis of Massalia\u2019s ancient road, founded and built upon by the ancient Greeks and Romans, later to became a disconnected hinterland at the epicentre of Marseille and a \u2018cultural route\u2019 curated by city guidebooks and the tourist information office.<\/h6>\nLa Voie Historique will be used as the framework for a non-chronological recitation of significant moments of inhabitation: from its origin point, Les Jardin des Vestiges [1967], to the mid point, L\u2019\u00c9glise des Accoules [1720], to the intersection of Le Panier [1944], to the end point, Fort Saint Jean [2013]. By retracing imprinted time from historical documents, images and texts and examining how these physical residues have persisted, we may better understand and critically analyse the city\u2019s genesis, fragmentation and cultural evolution.<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n\nThe compound identity of Marseille is an inextricable\u00a0interweaving of myth, reality, seen and unseen \u2013\u00a0a modernist construct: the industrial revolution,\u00a0the continuous flux of migration, its colonial past,\u00a0and the turbulence caused by inequality have all\u00a0contributed to the creation of a unique image of\u00a0the \u2018phocaean city\u2019. Each of these temporal imprints\u00a0inherits a modernism that was never finished or\u00a0achieved, which collectively illustrate the cultural\u00a0entanglement of past and present Marseille, and\u00a0perhaps also the morass of its cultural politics. By\u00a0making this complex cultural identity accessible and\u00a0the unseen seen, it could become an instrument of progress informing the cultural present, enriching the city and its inhabitants.<\/h6>\n
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The compound identity of Marseille is an inextricable\u00a0interweaving of myth, reality, seen and unseen \u2013\u00a0a modernist construct: the industrial revolution,\u00a0the continuous flux of migration, its colonial past,\u00a0and the turbulence caused by inequality have all\u00a0contributed to the creation of a unique image of\u00a0the \u2018phocaean city\u2019. Each of these temporal imprints\u00a0inherits a modernism that was never finished or\u00a0achieved, which collectively illustrate the cultural\u00a0entanglement of past and present Marseille, and\u00a0perhaps also the morass of its cultural politics. By\u00a0making this complex cultural identity accessible and\u00a0the unseen seen, it could become an instrument of progress informing the cultural present, enriching the city and its inhabitants.<\/h6>\n<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nMarseille is a city in which fact, fiction, insiders and the continuum of outsiders endlessly pass through each other in a manner which reinforces rather than dilutes its identity. This both informs and is irrelevant to the uplifting direct encounter with everyday Marseille, the city of the eternal present.<\/h6>\nThe demerit of this experiential reality is that it masks the often unseen complex, cultural reservoir.<\/h6>\nThe topography of Marseille together with the imprint of its various cities, past and present, have resulted in a language of the \u2018Scenographic\u2019, which makes the city perceptually memorable and easy to use. The visual relationship between the enclosing mountain range, sea, port and city monuments experienced while walking in the city foreshortens physical and temporal distances. This analysis is critical to the design development of the project; the idea of the scenographic and visual navigability is extended into the new building.<\/h6>\n<\/h6>\n
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\nThis project looks at how a selection of the invisible histories might contribute to a fuller understanding of the identity of Marseille. It documents and qualitatively evaluates a series of urban stepping stones along La Voie Historique; the historic axis of Massalia\u2019s ancient road, founded and built upon by the ancient Greeks and Romans, later to became a disconnected hinterland at the epicentre of Marseille and a \u2018cultural route\u2019 curated by city guidebooks and the tourist information office.<\/h6>\nLa Voie Historique will be used as the framework for a non-chronological recitation of significant moments of inhabitation: from its origin point, Les Jardin des Vestiges [1967], to the mid point, L\u2019\u00c9glise des Accoules [1720], to the intersection of Le Panier [1944], to the end point, Fort Saint Jean [2013]. By retracing imprinted time from historical documents, images and texts and examining how these physical residues have persisted, we may better understand and critically analyse the city\u2019s genesis, fragmentation and cultural evolution.<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n
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\nMarseille is a city in which fact, fiction, insiders and the continuum of outsiders endlessly pass through each other in a manner which reinforces rather than dilutes its identity. This both informs and is irrelevant to the uplifting direct encounter with everyday Marseille, the city of the eternal present.<\/h6>\n
Marseille is a city in which fact, fiction, insiders and the continuum of outsiders endlessly pass through each other in a manner which reinforces rather than dilutes its identity. This both informs and is irrelevant to the uplifting direct encounter with everyday Marseille, the city of the eternal present.<\/h6>\nThe demerit of this experiential reality is that it masks the often unseen complex, cultural reservoir.<\/h6>\nThe topography of Marseille together with the imprint of its various cities, past and present, have resulted in a language of the \u2018Scenographic\u2019, which makes the city perceptually memorable and easy to use. The visual relationship between the enclosing mountain range, sea, port and city monuments experienced while walking in the city foreshortens physical and temporal distances. This analysis is critical to the design development of the project; the idea of the scenographic and visual navigability is extended into the new building.<\/h6>\n<\/h6>\n
The topography of Marseille together with the imprint of its various cities, past and present, have resulted in a language of the \u2018Scenographic\u2019, which makes the city perceptually memorable and easy to use. The visual relationship between the enclosing mountain range, sea, port and city monuments experienced while walking in the city foreshortens physical and temporal distances. This analysis is critical to the design development of the project; the idea of the scenographic and visual navigability is extended into the new building.<\/h6>\n<\/h6>\n
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\nThis project looks at how a selection of the invisible histories might contribute to a fuller understanding of the identity of Marseille. It documents and qualitatively evaluates a series of urban stepping stones along La Voie Historique; the historic axis of Massalia\u2019s ancient road, founded and built upon by the ancient Greeks and Romans, later to became a disconnected hinterland at the epicentre of Marseille and a \u2018cultural route\u2019 curated by city guidebooks and the tourist information office.<\/h6>\n
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