Marseille 14th - The Plane trees
- department: Bouches-du-Rhône
- municipality: Marseille
- naming: The Plane trees
- address : from Saint Joseph to Sainte-Marthe
- Author: Pierre JAMEUX (architect)
- date: 1967
- protection: unprotected building
- label patrimoine XXe: Commission régionale du patrimoine et des sites (CRPS) du 16 November 2006
In Marseilles, "bastides" and "countryside" form the bulk of the post-war land resource. In the absence of a specific project, urbanization will take place along pre-existing routes: serving bastides (here the Sainte-Marthe road), railways, old canals.
Plane trees are a small program (149 homes), dedicated to the staff of the Police and PTT.
The composition is based on the plane walk of the bastide, distributing to the north a square of five levels, and to the west a tower of seven levels followed by a bar in curved arc slightly to the north and leaned against garages.
The square opposes on the one hand the very open facades (loggias, glass panels) scanned by heads of clear concrete walls alternating with brick walls and a more closed elevation, to the north, pierced by bays in quinconce, in withdrawal of the outside nude, equipped with lighters made of openwork bricks.
The brick is found on the gables and entrances in other motifs of panneresses-boutisses.
At the bottom of the driveway, the small concrete tower, on stilts, all vertical bays with corner balconies, is covered with a shade that shelters dryers. Carpentry and locksmith are coloured celadon green.
We recognize the author’s invoice in the use of prefabricated clear concrete, with worked formwork, associated with various brick appliances that play a role either structural, filling, or decorative. The references to Alvar Aalto’s experimental house are close, in this way of introducing textures into a device set by simple geometry.
Note the treatment of the garden from the preserved trees of the bastide and the calade soils.
- Editor: Thierry Durousseau, architect, 2006
Read also in Heritage of the 20th century, the study Marseille, ensembles and residences from 1955/1975
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