Silver set square for the architect Marc Barani |
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Collection title
JT locale Nice
First broadcast date
03/17/2009
Abstract
Silver set square prize has been awarded to the architect from Nice Marc Barani for the Rouret « multimodal pole ». The architect explains the difficulties of realizing this terminal for the Nice trams, located in a housing estate area, at the foot of a hill, over an area of 2 hectares. This work with cinematographic lines claims to be also ecological with its green roofs, natural light and large picture windows. This urban project is also a social project as it allows to better integrate the district of Las Planas to the city. Marc Barani goes back to the issue of the management of densities, which is a crucial question now in urban architecture. The reward he has obtained allows him to be among the five finalists of the European prize for Contemporary architecture.
Production companies
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France 3 - Own production
Personalities
- Laurens Yannick
- Barani Marc - Architecte
Primary theme
Architecture
Secondary themes
- Tourism and cultural sites / Urbanism and cities
Credits / Cast
- Brunelli Niels - Journalist
Map locations
- France - South East - Nice
Context
Mediterranean Landmarks
The Silver T-square Prize in France is equivalent in the field of architecture to the Goncourt Prize in literature. It was created in 1983 by the Monitor Group - leading publishing house dedicated to the field of construction – aiming at promoting the contemporary architectural design. If some of the achievements chosen by the jury have been controversial in the past, it is not the case with the choice made in 2009 in favor of the architect Marc Barani from Nice, long recognized by his peers for his ability to master complex subjects. That was the case with this terminal trams built on a narrow and rugged ground, in the middle of blocks of flats and highways.
His choice was to treat the ensemble through the strata, with the trams at first, then a pedestrian plaza and a relay parking, and finally on the above, the center of command. Achieving this is significant in the trend of a contemporary architecture that intends to be integrated into the urban fabric rather than to be distinguished from it by a radical and aggressive rupture. Favoring smooth lines and "hot" materials, it wants to connect the architectural project to some social vision and natural references, if not ecological (rooftop lawns, use of wood and stone, natural light). There is no doubt that the sights of Marc Barani are not foreign to him, as he went to stay as an anthropologist among the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley, in Nepal, where the work of wood sculpture and architecture is particularly noteworthy.
Born in Menton in 1957, settled in Nice, Marc Barani mainly worked, up to now, in his native region. He is known for the cemetery of St. Pancras in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin (1992), which was his first public procurement, and a special villa built on the heights of Cannes in 2004. After recently leaving the French Riviera, he came at the time of the price to rehabilitate the churches of the Holy Cross and Saint-Georges in Chelles. Since then, he achieved another remarkable masterpiece, be it the Renault Bridge connecting the island of Seguin in Boulogne-Billancourt, and completed the new Congress Centre of Nancy, "emblematic" site of the Nancy Grand Coeur Station eco-district.
At the regional level, this architect is representative for two reasons. Firstly, he is part of the small cohort of contemporary artists graduating from the National School of Architecture in Marseille, which appears to be a leading place of training and creation in France. Secondly, Rudy Ricciotti has also graduated from this school, he was granted the architecture grand prize in 2006. He lives in Bandol and became a world-renowned architect. He is the author of Jean Cocteau Museum, inaugurated in 2011 in Menton, and the future MUCEM in Marseilles. Moreover, these architects recall through their work that the coastal Provence has established long-standing ties with the pioneering architecture. The creation of Le Corbusier (Marseilles and Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in particular) does not summarize these links. These are notable architects, just like Robert Mallet-Stevens.
(Villa Noailles in Hyères), Georges-Henri Pingusson (Latitude of the hotel is 43 in Saint-Tropez), Auguste Perret and Fernand Pouillon (reconstruction of the Old Port of Marseilles, etc..), Jean Dubuisson, to mention only "historical" names who have left their mark in a variety of styles throughout a coastline where their originality severs on the dominant banality.
Bibliography
Marc Barani, Tramway Terminal of Nice, Nice, architecture workshop Marc Barani, 2010.
Jean-Lucien Bonillo and Jean-Francois Pousse, with Marc Barani and Francis Rambert, the contemporry architechture of the French Riviera (1945-1980), Dijon, the Press of the Reality, 2011, 304 p.
Jean-Lucien Bonillo coord., The architecture of the twentieth century in the Var. the labeled and protected heritage, Marseilles, Imbernon Editions, 2011, 212 p.
Jean-Lucien Bonillo, Fernand Pouillon, mediterranean architect, Marseilles, Imbernon Editions, 2001, 256 p.