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← A vertiginous foot- Where the city meets the sea in marseilles, France, a new building by architect rudy ricciotti, bridge connects the in collaboration with roland carta, stands in dramatic contrast to its heavily reinforced new structure to Fort neighbour, Fort saint-Jean, which was built in the 1660s to deter revolutionaries. infinitely Saint-Jean. more porous than its pre decessor, the strict square box is sheathed in a diaphanous curtain ↑ Veil-like concrete of free-form concrete that recalls local fishermen’s nets. Despite the obvious juxtaposition, cladding envelops both buildings constitute part of the new museum of civilisations from europe and the the glass box of the mediterranean (mucem), which has some 250,000 objects in its collection, from 16th-century museum. reliquaries to a pink Floyd mixing console. tying the structures together, a 115-metre-long, ↗ One of the circula- vertigo-inducing ribbon of a footbridge offers a sky-high stroll above the port; and a third tion routes that wind building nearby serves as the museum’s conservation centre. through the facility. although the 15,500-square-metre addition, named J4, is undeniably eye catching, the architects sought to defer to the area’s historical architecture. “mucem’s dematerialization is in response to the massiveness of the fortifications,” says ricciotti. “the result is friendly with Fort saint-Jean.” the concrete’s matte finish is subdued, he notes, and the overall form doesn’t cry out for attention. Yet the addition stands out among other recent architectural developments. as the european capital of culture 2013, marseilles has inaugurated several striking new projects, including the Vieux port pavilion by London’s Foster + partners, and the Villa méditerranée by milan’s Boeri studio. While the city’s history shaped it, J4 also showcases contemporary French material technology, says ricciotti. it is constructed largely from ultra-high-performance concrete, a French invention by Ductal Lafarge. stronger, more watertight, and more versatile than the ordinary kind, the substance was pushed to its limits on this project. “it follows a long chain of expertise, from concrete chemists and structural engineers to prefab and pre-loading pHoto BY Lorem ipsum DoLore glass box supported by a branching concrete structure. Within that transparent container specialists,” he says. Beneath the lacy curtain, circulation ramps wind around the building’s heart, an interior are two levels of permanent and temporary exhibition spaces, a 325-seat auditorium, a book- store, a restaurant, and administrative areas. in the end, says ricciotti, J4 is unmistakably of its place: “it is bony, feminine, fragile and mannered – also provincial, local, provençal.” azuremagazine.com rudyricciotti.com sept 2013 47

graphics man on Teresa Sapey crafts a surreal story starring a houndstooth-suited main character for a the move Barcelona hotel BY Rafael gomez-moRiana For pau, its new hotel in Barcelona, the room mate group sought an interior that would conjure an arche- typal character. Luckily, architect teresa sapey likes to tell stories in her designs. “in this case, pau is a catalan gentleman, a chef who is refined and edgy at a time when catalan cuisine leads the world,” she explains. through graphics and furnishings, she shows pau moving through a sequence of spaces that form chapters of sorts. the most dramatic, the elevator lobby, intro- duces the pro tag on ist, represented in a large artwork stencilled onto the elevator doors and walls. Wearing a jacket with the same houndstooth pattern as the carpet, pau has his back turned to us, and his head appears to be in a knot. “i have always liked houndstooth for the classicism of its directional black and white checkerboard pattern,” says sapey. “and the irony of a cook wearing pata de gallo !” (in spanish, houndstooth translates as “rooster leg.” ) “the question might be whether the rooster came before the chef.” a stairway leads up to the 66-room hotel’s lounge and café-bar, which opens onto a large wooden terrace dotted with multi- functional furniture pieces (adán, created by sapey for Vondom) shaped like human heads, which serve as stools, side tables, or planters. in the atrium and corridors, large photographs of different- coloured eyes peer at us. the suites provide the final chapter, leaving the ending up to the guest’s imaginations. stencilled images of hands, corian room dividers perf- orated like swiss cheese, and bathroom tiles that resemble rustic barnboard adorn the rooms. as with any good story, sapey fills in the details with care, through her use of colour, materials and iconography. teresasapey.com pau.room-matehotels.com 48 sept 2013 azuremagazine.com

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Fresh take the silo An innovative wooden skin animates the  handcrafted reception desk treatment of a converted sugar silo in Montreal BY david theodore ↑ revamped to in the reception area inside a former redpath sugar silo on montreal’s Lachine serve the new climbing canal, a custom-designed desk perches like a digital wire-frame surface gym, the silo’s recep- come to life, embodying a fusion of handicraft and computer-driven design. tion area features it serves guests of the adjacent allez up rock climbing centre, recently Mammafotogramma’s constructed at the base of the silo complex. the designers, giulio masotti and inventive desk. gianluca Lo presti of the milan multimedia studio mammafotogramma, lived ← the site’s four sugar nearby for two months while they planned and built the curving, 12-metre-long silos, with the rock structure in situ. the duo hand-cut and welded the over 15,000 steel pieces climbing centre in the that support the desk’s intricate wooden shell. rather than a computer model, middle. they constructed a 1:1 scale prototype to work out the positioning of computer ↙ the pliable Woodskin displays and floating rubber work surfaces. “We shaped and changed each for the reception desk individual piece, based on the needs of the climbing centre,” says masotti. is fabricated from ply- the shell represents mammafotogramma’s first test of Woodskin, a pliable wood and vinyl mesh. material made using digital fabrication. computer-controlled milling machines precisely cut a sandwich of plywood and vinyl mesh, producing sheets that can be quickly shaped by hand into complex forms. “We like the mix of old techniques and the digital,” explains masotti. “We’d like to have a family of products that goes in that direction.” the commission came about through friendship: masotti met Jean-marc de la plante, president of the family-owned enterprise, during a stay in mont- real as an architecture student. When de la plante engaged smith Vigeant architects to design the new gym, he invited mammafotogramma to contribute. so far, only part of one silo has been converted, becoming the reception area. However, the 30-metre-high volume overhead might yet be transformed into a private climbing area for groups or youth. “it’s still a work-in-progress,“ says project architect Daniel smith. sweet. mammafotogramma.it 50 sept 2013 azuremagazine.com