© Steven Massart

(史蒂文·马萨)

架构师提供的文本描述。风景，海洋，阳光，矿质，这一切都必须由一个计划，将成为联邦和认知。首先，在毕达哥拉斯(Pythagoras)的控制下，这是一个经典的拉丁语方案，每边72米的完美平方。在这个广场内，另一侧52米，包括展览和会议大厅被确定为博物馆的中心。

Text description provided by the architects. Views, sea, sun, a mineral quality, which all must be orchestrated by a program that will become federal and cognitive. First of all a perfect square of 72 m per side, it is a classic plan, Latin, under the control of Pythagoras. Within this square, another of 52 m per side, comprising the exhibition and conference halls identified as the heart of the museum.

 © Steven Massart

(史蒂文·马萨)

周围，上面和下面都是服务区。但在这些区域和心脏之间，开口完全绕过中央广场，形成相互连接的空间。更感兴趣的是城堡、海洋或港口的景观，文化上不堪重负的游客将选择这条路线。沿着两个交错的坡道，他将跳入想象中的巴别塔或齐古拉塔，以便爬上屋顶，到达圣约翰堡。这一外围循环将是一种令人窒息的呼吸，被来自护城河附近的海洋气味所包围，暂停以消除对我们文明历史使用的任何挥之不去的疑虑。MuCEM将是一个垂直的Casbah。

Around, above and below are the service areas. But between these areas and the heart, openings entirely bypass the central square and form interconnected spaces. More interested by the views of the fort, the sea or the port, the culturally overwhelmed visitor will choose this route. Along two interlacing ramps, he will then plunge into the imaginary of the tower of Babel or of a ziggurat in order to climb up to the rooftop and on to Fort Saint- Jean. This peripheral loop will be a demuseumifying breathe, enveloped by the smells of the sea from the proximity to the moats, a pause to dispel any lingering doubts about the use of the history of our civilisations. The MuCEM will be a vertical Casbah.

 © Steven Massart

(史蒂文·马萨)

来自法国工业最新研究的一种特殊混凝土的构造选择，将其尺寸缩小到只有皮肤和骨骼，这将肯定圣吉安堡高墙下的矿物剧本。这唯一的材料在尘埃的颜色，马特，粉碎光，远离辉煌和技术消费主义，将赞扬密集和微妙。MuCEM通过它的扇影看到自己在石头和东方的风景中消失。

The tectonic choice of an exceptional concrete coming from the latest research by French industry, reducing the dimensions to little more than skin and bones, will affirm a mineral script under the high ramparts of Fort Saint-Jean. This sole material in the colour of dust, matt, crushed by the light, distant from the brilliance and technological consumerism, will commend the dense and the delicate. The MuCEM sees itself evanescent in a landscape of stone and Orientalist through its fanning shadows.

 © Steven Massart

(史蒂文·马萨)

在横跨盆地的天空中，一条飞行的地毯，稍微长了一点，向要塞驶去。

In the sky spanning the basin a flying carpet, granted a bit long, navigates towards the fort.