Marseille Vieux-Port Masterplan

ARETE (ARH-UT-TEY)

Realising full physical, intellectual, emotional, social and/or moral potential.
Essentially, excellence of any kind.

A pursuit of excellence, living up to one’s potential.

The pedestrian experience within Marseille, particularly Saint-Victor, feels compromised and is secondary to the car. Outside the more gentrified central streets, the experience of walking is an afterthought, an isolating and disconnected experience. There are physical and metaphysical rifts throughout the neighbourhood, and the wider city, that can be reconciled through intervention. The thesis project explores the symbiotic relationship between the city’s infrastructure and physical & mental health. By providing meaningful routes that encourage you to slow down and ground yourself in your surroundings, this masterplan for Marseille’s port help reclaim the streetscape for people. through methods of retrofit, new build, structural design and urban planning, a new layer has been added to the city, culminating in a new fitness centre – a microcosm of the masterplan – and footbridge, reconnecting north and south.