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Our ambition for the Marigot coastline is to make it an authentic and popular place, to create a destination with worldwide influence that embodies the island's powerful identity. To do this, we have summoned the history of this site, to rebuild an organic relationship between the land and the sea. We are returning a sense of calm to this place, which has until now been defined by the presence of the car, by giving it back its pedestrian and public prerogative. We give back to nature and life a primordial place, this project is above all that of a great maritime park. This territory with dilapidated uses becomes the beating heart of the island, the existing activities are all reinserted with gentleness and coherence, but above all we leave room for a multitude of new uses. Finally, the identity of this new place is embodied in a continuous figure ground and in the structure of the great hall that culminates in the lighthouse, two powerful elements, icons for this territory.
The city of Marigot has built its urban and maritime territory on water. This has distanced it from this natural environment, the original founder and great marker of the island. The car has taken over this space, dwarfing the scale of the pedestrian, of the shade and the nearby landscape approachable to all.The last hurricane events still influence the memory of all, inviting us to rediscover the urban front as an authentic place of relaxation. This coastline is capable of dealing with climatic risks while consolidating a true identity inscribing the history of the people of Saint Martin in a contemporary presence.