Main Architecture and Design Media Library La Passerelle: Bridge to the Future

Media Library La Passerelle: Bridge to the Future

The new, recently opened multimedia library, designed by architect Jean-Pierre Lott, is a symbol of urban renewal and gives the town spaces in which to meet and socialize. It is an example of “participatory architecture”, as the inhabitants were involved with presentations and talks at various stages of the project.

Vitrolles, like many cities on the periphery of great metropolises, grew too quickly. A victim of the urbanization of the 1960s, it went from the status of little village with about a thousand inhabitants, to a bedroom community comprised of soulless apartment buildings. Following intense residential and urban development this Provencal town has become a ‘commuter town’ that required an urban reconfiguration program for the whole district of Les Pins.

La Passerelle, the new media center, has become the building that symbolizes the whole town. The flexibility and modular nature of the building allows it to become an intercommunitary and intergenerational arts center aimed at various means of communication (words, sounds, images and multimedia).

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