For Marc Barani, architecture should logically be seen as directly related to man and his environment. In fact, he has followed three training courses, distinct but complementary. In addition to his degree in architecture, he has two more in anthropology and scenography. His first project was of a personal nature. “It was an unusual commission, the cemetery of Roquebrune Cap Martin !” Then followed the tram station in Nice : “An operation in which we put into practice everything that we believe.” He had to find the site, come up with a technical plan and extend the tramline to the foot of a building. “It became an urban project.” In 2010, there’s no shortage of files, from building a bridge in Nantes to construction of a Congress Centre in Nancy, via the staging of the tomb of Rafik Hariri in Beirut. “We have just obtained the authorization. We have devised a scenographic pathway, like a walk through the past.” Yet more evidence of the social, political and economic aspects of architecture. Atelier Barani, 27 boulevard Joseph-Garnier (04 93 51 08 10).
