It is a site where the stories mixed together. The Ruffi Sports Center is located in front of the St. Martin church. The building marks its territory and reflecting that in Marseilles, city has influenced by Latin culture, with the history to having together activity in sport. The viewer might be forgiven for dismissing this construction as a disused industrial warehouse. It is actually a sports complex, providing various facilities for the local community including basketball and handball courts, both indoor and outdoor, and 2 areas of marked terrain to play petanque, ready to use 24 hours a day.

The design is about transformation, materializes and synthesizes an evolution. It tries to critic and crystallizes the changing phase of the district: when the place is still a village, then turned into industrial era and last to contemporary condition which reconquest of the city and its territory. As a site filled with industrial carcasses, the Ruffi Sports Center is angled facing to the street of Ruffi and Melchior Guinot. The usage of pre-cast concrete slabs is an effort to response with the street.

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