REDEVELOPMENT: CHATEAU D’IF SITE

Marseilles, France

Château d’If site, Frioul Islands, Marseilles: redevelopment of the restaurant and the Vauban building

Marseilles (France)
2022-in progress
program: renovation of the restaurant and development of a new bookstore boutique, educational spaces, redevelopment of the employees rooms in the Vauban building on the Château d’If site, Iles du Frioul, Marseilles
Surface: 231 sqm
– Restaurant: 118 sqm
– Vauban building: 113 sqm
contracting authority: Centre des Monuments Nationaux for the Ministry of Culture and Communication
project: Alfonso Femia / Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia
images: ©Alfonso Femia / Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia & Diorama
“Our project is based on the very particular context, offered by the site itself, of being located on an island: to offer an immersive experience relating to empathy and discovery.” AF

Our project is part of a place welcoming 100,000 people per year and whose redevelopment affirms a desire to improve the service offer to visitors and schoolchildren. This place full of architectural history and surrounded by a unique landscape aims to become the support for uses turned towards the future.
Our project redevelops the site in all its dimensions. It stages reality. Unity and part of a whole. Our ambition is to seek a balance between the historical role of the whole and its daily active use. Our intention is to highlight the existing heritage and affirm its identity, already strong and anchored to the site, to offer it an extremely powerful continuity: that of being at the heart of a landscape.