
4TH EDITION MONACO SMART & SUSTAINABLE MARINA
FLOATING SUSTAINABLE MARINA
PROJECT STATUS: INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN COMPETITION 2024
LOCATION: CALANQUE DE SORMIOU, MARSEILLE







SUSTAINABLE MARINA MANAGEMENT
Calanque De Sormiou, Marseille
Design of a sustainable floating marina in the French Mediterranean.
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SEAFORESTATION - Calanque de Sormiou, Marseille.
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Student Architecture Award 2024
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Judges response:
Cornelia Bosman (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
"Her project stood out for its thorough approach, combining innovation with exemplary eco-responsible thinking."
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​​The 4th edition of the Monaco Smart & Sustainable Marina Rendezvous in 2024 called for a design proposal of an innovative and sustainable floating marina. Situated in the spectacular Calanque de Sormiou near Marseille, the project site lies within precious Posidonia meadows. Posidonia, like most other seaweed sequester vast amounts of carbon - 20 times more than rainforests and in return deliver 4-20 l/m2 oxygen per day. They also contain highly vulnerable and diverse marine species and act as protective nursing space for young marine fauna. Yet, these meadows, due to climate change and unsustainable mooring practices, are vanishing at a rate of 10% per decade.
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Monaco Marina Management deserves credit for their relentless pursuit of sustainability in the marine and boating industries such as the 2024 call for innovative mooring design intervention. SEAFORESTATION proposes retrofitting decommissioned and abandoned catamarans, an escalating 'waste' problem foreseen from the recreational boating sector - in great calamity lies opportunity.
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With adverse effects of climate change felt globally, we need to learn to live with nature and within natural ecological systems. Regenerative living requires that we leave the environment better than it was before. This can only effectively be done through a collective effort - starting with each of us individually.
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"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it," Robert Swan.
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