The project investigates the forces of the natural world and their relationship with the built form. At a time when the climate is in crisis, the project sought to understand and manipulate the invisible choreography that is at the basis of architecture.

The project reuses the site of a disused acid factory, situated amongst the limestone foothills to the south of Marseille. It proposes a new settlement of houses and civic buildings, built in anticipation of a new wave of people forced to leave their homes due the effects of desertification in North Africa. The proposals expand on the pre-existing logic of the site, which is already organised around the prevailing winds, the sea and the contours of the land.

The site is divided into three basic programmatic categories: community buildings, housing and spaces of worship. All buildings engage the moving materials of topography, trees, water and wind, but in different ways depending on their location on the site and their programmatic requirements.