Marché Beaux Arts

Cinema complex and covered market

BusinessesCultural institutions
Besançon
Carta - Reichen et Robert Associates - Marché Beaux Arts

Design and construction of an ensemble comprising a covered market and a multiplex that are integrated into the particular context of a preserved sector; design of the public spaces on the Place du Marché.

Located in the historic centre of Besançon, the Place du Marché has always been the city's beating heart. The first market building in the 16th century, now a conservatory of music; a second one in the 18th century, today the museum; and a Baltard structure, now dismantled, are all part of its history.
To modernise the uses of the space and introduce the function of urban leisure, the program called for a new covered market and a multiplex.

The architectural project needed to blend with the existing stone façades by Chailluz, vestiges of a former block, now demolished.
It proposed a building resulting from the interlocking of two volumes forming right angles, with two stone façades on one side and two glass façades on the other. The market is located on the ground floor and the multiplex on the first floor; the place needed visibility and an address. The Rue Pâris, which separates the rear façade of the museum and the complex’s glass one, has become a covered passage consisting of a 7-meter cantilevered glass roof coordinated with the cornice of the museum.


Delivery : 2004

Project owner
SEDD: Covered area, market building, brasserie and museum offices
SA PLAZZA: cinema complex

Project supervision
Reichen et Robert & Associés
Jean-Pierre Varin Architecte
Landscaping: Jacqueline Osty
Technical Design Office: OTH Est, Santini
Acoustics: Capri

Area
Market building: 1,638 m²
Storerooms: 480 m²
Cinema multiplex: 3,935 m²
Brasserie: 497 m²
Museum offices: 650 m²

Project value
€7.5 M tax excluded

Photographers
Alexandre & Emilie, Olivier Perrenoud

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