Bridging Identity
Marseille / France /OST Ostschweizer Fachhochschule Rapperswil
1774
Our transformation is unfolding in a place where worlds collide. One side stretching up to the sky, glassy, grey, clean. Newly for rent. The other side slowly crumbling, its colours fading. But the life in it can still be felt. It struggles, together with its inhabitants. And in the middle lies the street, a border between worlds, between cultures, between built structures. Far too wide for the amount of traffic, a ribbon of unused, hot tarmac. A lost space. It is here, on Rue de Lyon, that our transformation is taking place.
A government project has set the goal of completely replacing the former industrial district of Les Crottes in Marseille’s 15th arrondissement with a new neighbourhood. Rents are rising, – the new neighbourhood is intended for new people, different people. Half of the neighbourhood has already disappeared in this process, while the other half persists.
