Marseille 9th - Luminy School of Art and Architecture
- department: Bouches-du-Rhône
- municipality: Marseille
- naming: Luminy School of Art and Architecture
- address : 184 avenue de Luminy
- author: René EGGER (architect)
- date: 1967-1968
- protection: unprotected building
- label patrimoine XXe: Commission régionale du patrimoine et des sites (CRPS) du 15 March 2007
Luminy was a state property belonging to the family of the shipowner Cyprien Fabre which was sold to the city of Marseilles and the state at the Liberation. It was not until the early 1960s, and after various projects, that the decision to create a university campus was made. The constraints associated with the site (natural heritage, remoteness, etc.) prompted the architect in charge of the project, René Egger, to take inspiration from the Anglo-Saxon campuses when designing the building complex.
René Egger organizes the construction around two axes (north-south and east-west), and plans two monumental elements to animate the space: a tower and a stadium, which will never see the light of day. On the other hand, the rest of the composition initially planned is realized, with a multiplicity of programs: university buildings, restaurants, dormitories… Slightly off-centered, the school of art and architecture is distinguished from the rest of the site by its mixed composition, which combines a "grid", according to the natural staging of the site, which hosts the Fine Arts workshops, with a "bar" for future architects. The variety of architectural elements that make up this school – patios, galleries, calades, smooth coatings, stilts…– helps to create a unique atmosphere, conducive to the emergence of young talents.
The school was the subject of extension work in 1992, which succeeded in completing Egger’s project without distorting it.
- Editor: Eve Roy, drac paca crmh, 2006
- Source: Jacques Sbriglio, Guides d'architecture, Marseille 1945-1993, Marseille, Parentheses, 1993, pp. 112-113.
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