Marignane - Aircraft hangars
- department: Bouches-du-Rhône
- Municipality: Marignane
- naming: Aircraft hangars
- address: airport site, along CD 48
- authors: Nicolas ESQUILLAN (engineer), Auguste PERRET (architect)
- date: 1949-1952
- protection: unprotected building
- label patrimoine XXe: Commission régionale du patrimoine et des sites (CRPS) of 28 November 2000
After the destruction of the Second World War, Marseille was rebuilt. Priority was given to housing and service facilities, and it was in this context that Auguste Perret (1874-1954), an architect, and Nicolas Esquillan (1902-1989), an engineer, were commissioned to rebuild Marignane’s air sheds.
They are in the form of two low concrete hulls, each with a span of 100 m, which have been formed on the ground and hoisted at once by a system of cylinders. Each of them consists of six double-curved waves, also made of reinforced concrete. The technical particularity of these vaults is their great thinness, we speak of "thin veil", despite a height of nearly 19 meters.
- Editor: Eve Roy, drac paca crmh, 2005