University of ­Marseilles Learning ­Centre

 - Frank Kaltenbach

The Luminy science campus of the University of Aix-Marseilles is embedded in the hilly Calanques landscape south-east of Marseilles. The scattered institute buildings allow close contact with nature, but make social life, with a lively exchange between people, more complicated. The new research centre has now become a focal point, where students of different faculties can meet.

University of ­Marseilles Learning ­Centre
The tightly closed existing building, dating from the 1960s, contained the campus dining hall. Additional measures have now opened the structure to the surroundings. © Takuji Shimmura