The sites of the DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
The DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes consists of several sites: - The site of Lyon, Le Grenier d'abondance (classified as historical monuments on February 3, 2014). - The Clermont-Ferrand site, the Hotel de Chazerat (protected under the title of historical monuments by decree of 5 July 1926). - Departmental Units of Architecture and Heritage (UDAP) present in each department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
The Granary of Plenty is one of the last witnesses of the granaries built in certain cities to dispose of wheat stocks in case of shortage, and rendered obsolete by the free movement of grains, the improvement of the road network and the evolution of storage techniques. Classified as a historical monument on 3 February 2014, it houses the headquarters of the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs and the dance department of the National Superior Conservatory of Music and Dance.
History of the building and its rehabilitation
Located northwest of Lyon, on the left bank of the Saône, the Grenier d'Abondance was built between 1722 and 1728 under the direction of the architect Claude Bertaud de la Vaure to preserve the wheat needed for the annual diet of some 120,000 Lyonnais of the time. After the royal edict establishing the free movement of grains (1763), the building was quickly assigned to military uses: artillery store, arsenal and barracks until 1987.
The departure of the National Gendarmerie then allows the Ministry of Culture to program the installation - effective in 1993 - from the headquarters of the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs as well as the dance studios of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse, established since 1988, in the former veterinary school located just opposite, quai Chauveau, on the right bank of the Saône.
The Grenier d'abondance is classified in its entirety as historical monuments (order of 3 February 2014). It has an exceptional architecture: on three levels superimposed, three rows of arch vaults falling on two series of stone pillars and two rows of pilasters engaged in the reverse of the facades. In the centre of this imposing rectangular building (130 metres long, 18 metres wide), a projecting forebody with a soberly decorated triangular pediment leads to a large staircase with four nuclei giving access to the floors.
The Ministry of Culture used the architects Denis Valode and Jean Pistre et associés to furnish this unique building with the premises adapted to its new missions. Started in September 1991, the project was completed in February 1993: the proposed party allows to leave intact the original structure and to integrate modern elements in a concern for sobriety and authenticity.
In 2004, the architectural agency Philippe Couteau and Véronique VDB Girard was entrusted with a mission to adapt the ground floor of the building, according to the evolution of services, to develop waiting areas for the public, to make the reception more user-friendly, rationalize the storage space and expand the documentation centre.
The lighting and furniture are signed by contemporary designers (Ernesto Gismondi, Herzog and de Meuron, Moroso, Starck, Ron Arad, Marco Maran).
The public, who can now take the main staircase, can discover a work by Marc Couturier "Barque de Saône", ( depot of the FRAC Rhône-Alpes) installed on the 1st floor.
Contact Information:
The Attic of Plenty
6, quai Saint-Vincent 69283 Lyon cedex 01
Tel. 04 72 00 44 00
Bus access: Lines 3, 19, 31, C14, 45, 40 Stop Koenig Bridge
Metro access: Stop Valmy - Velo'v station: Koenig Bridge
Schedules:
DRAC
lyon site
and Departmental Unit of Architecture and Heritage of the Rhône and Metropolis of Lyon
Monday to Friday: 9am to 12pm and 2pm to 5pm
The Attic of Abundance seen by
Jacqueline Salmon / photographic commission carried out in 1991-1993
History of the Granary of Plenty
L'Hôtel de Chazerat est protégé au titre des monuments historiques par arrêté du 5 juillet 1926, les façades et toitures, le sol de la cour ovale et de la terrasse et les pièces suivantes avec leur décor : le grand salon avec sa cheminée et le bureau qui lui fait suite à l'angle nord sont classées au titre des monuments historiques par arrêté du 18 juin 1979.
Historique
L’hôtel de Chazerat s’élève le long de l’ancienne rue des Nobles, rebaptisée rue Pascal pendant la Révolution.
Il a été commandé par Charles-Antoine - Claude de Chazerat (1728-1824). Fils et petit-fils de deux premiers présidents de la Cour des Aides, dont il hérita la charge, il est surtout connu pour avoir occupé le poste d’intendant de Justice, Police et Finances de la généralité de Riom et province d’Auvergne de 1770 à 1789.
On peut supposer que Chazerat fit appel, pour le dessin de sa nouvelle demeure, à l’architecte d’origine rouennaise Antoine- Mathieu Le Carpentier, présent en Auvergne entre 1758 et 1767.
En avril 1761, les fondations sont terminées, sous la direction de l’architecte clermontois Pierre Peyrat, qui surveilla le chantier jusqu’à l’achèvement du gros oeuvre en 1764. Lorsque Monsieur de Chazerat est nommé intendant en 1770, l’hôtel est en voie d’achèvement. À la Révolution, l’hôtel est confisqué puis vendu comme bien national. Il est alors acheté par la ville de Clermont mais, dès 1806, Monsieur de Chazerat réintègre son logis et, quelques jours avant sa mort, le vend à l’autorité ecclésiastique.
Jusqu’à la séparation de l’Église et de l’État en 1905, l’édifice est affecté à l’évêché de Clermont. La Faculté des lettres puis la direction départementale des Services fiscaux remplacèrent l’évêché dans les locaux.
Enfin, depuis 1982, l’hôtel de Chazerat est devenu le siège de la Direction régionale des affaires culturelles Auvergne; En 2016, les régions Auvergne et Rhône-Alpes fusionnent, l'hôtel de Chazerat est un des deux sites de la DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Architecture and sets
When the hotel’s plans were designed, architectural theorists such as Jacques-François Blondel advocated a return to the “French way”, in other words to the rigour of the style adopted by Jules Hardouin-Mansart for Louis XIV between the 1671’s (date of creation of the Royal Academy of Architecture) and 1715. Jacques-Ange Gabriel’s Petit Trianon, exactly contemporary of the Chazerat hotel, is the model of this return to order.
The plan of the oval courtyard punctuated with pilasters, the most remarkable feature of the building, is borrowed from Germain Boffrand who had developed it in 1710 for the Amelot de Gournay hotel, located 1 rue Saint-Dominique in Paris.
This architect himself had contributed to the dissemination of the plans and elevations of this hotel by including them in the engraved collection of his work published in 1745. There were, however, few imitators. If we note a relative hardiness in the treatment of the Ionic capitals (flowers, draperies), this is not due to the volcanic stone which had in fact admirably lent itself to the finesses of the sculptors in the sixteenth century (for example, decor of the Hotel Savaron in Clermont, 3 rue des Chaussetiers; decor of the Hotel Guimoneau in Riom, 12 rue de l'Horloge).
The general layout of the hotel was changed as soon as he was assigned to the bishopric in 1824: the present reception hall was an antechamber that could be used as a dining room.
In the eighteenth century, the adjoining room served as a vestibule: its circular plan and zenithal lighting reflect the fashion of time, which allowed to exploit dark spaces while providing original light effects.
None of the stairs lends itself to a staging, since the noble floor is located here at the level of the courtyard. Indeed, the master’s rooms are on the ground floor, while the servants' rooms take place on the first floor. The service rooms and kitchens are semi-buried and buried level.
In the company room, we find the great way of the neo-Louis XIV style, where the richest gilding stands out on a white background: “the most beautiful color is the white” wrote D'Aviler in his architecture course in 1691, opinion shared by the architects of the Academy.
The scenes of the four bas-reliefs above the door represent the four seasons. These are copies of the decoration of the Grenelle fountain (rue de Grenelle in Paris, commissioned by the city to sculptor Edme Bouchardon in 1739).
From the living room, one accesses the terrace from which one has seen on the one hand on the posterior facade, which would have undoubtedly gained to be raised, and on the other hand on the garden below. No document allows to restore the drawing of the original massifs, but it is certain that the latter were made to be appreciated.
The vaulted stables took place under the terrace, a decoration of horses in relief still surmounts the door.
Contact Information:
Chazerat Hotel
4 Blaise Pascal Street
BP
378 - 63010 Clermont-Ferrand cedex 1
Tel. 04 73 41 27 00
Schedules:
DRAC
Clermont-Ferrand site
and Departmental Unit of Architecture
and Heritage of the Puy-de-Dôme
Monday to Friday: 9am to 12pm and 2pm to 4:30pm
The Departmental Units of Architecture and Heritage (UDAP) are present in each department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and constitute the departmental units of the DRAC. These are local services of the DRAC, composed of multidisciplinary teams led by an architect of the buildings of France (ABF), they work in direct relation with the users, many partners or institutional interlocutors.
The Departmental Units of Architecture and Heritage (UDAP) work to promote a qualitative and sustainable development of the territory, where landscape, urban planning and architecture maintain a reasoned dialogue between project dynamics and consideration of heritage.
The missions
The UDAP participates in the promotion of the heritage, architectural and urban quality, the conservation and the valorization of the monumental heritage. They ensure the preservation and enhancement of protected areas: surrounding historic monuments, remarkable heritage sites.
Together with the other services of the State in the regions, they participate in the management of sites and landscapes, the planning of the territory and the regulations concerning the environment, urban planning and urban renewal, with the objective of sustainable quality of urban and natural spaces.
The UDAP, under the authority of a head of department, architect of the buildings of France (ABF) who is also the curator of the monuments belonging to the State and assigned to the Ministry of Culture. He can look after a monument, most often the cathedral of his department or several.
Enhancing protected spaces
The regulation distinguishes three large families of protected areas for which the intervention of the UDAP differs: approaches of historical monuments, remarkable heritage sites and finally listed or classified sites.
- Monitor and ensure the preservation of protected areas, contribute to their development by participating in the appraisal of development projects or works located on the edge of a historic monument, protected site, remarkable heritage site;
- To propose, animate and coordinate studies relating to remarkable heritage sites and the surroundings of historical monuments (so-called "delimited" perimeters of the surroundings).
Promoting heritage, architectural and urban quality
- Promote the architectural and landscape quality of buildings, particularly by ensuring the integration of sustainable development issues;
- to contribute to the quality of urban and rural development projects and to city policy, to encourage architectural creation;
- Advise clients in the development and implementation of their architectural projects.
Preserving the monumental heritage
- Participate in the implementation of the regulations on monumental heritage: conserving and preserving historic monuments;
- Evaluate maintenance, restoration, rehabilitation and upgrading projects and participate in the allocation of public aid;
- Contribute to the scientific and technical control of work on protected monuments and to the health watch;
- The architect of the buildings of France is curator of the monuments of the State and assigned to the Ministry of Culture (cathedrals....).
Maintain the quality of protected sites and landscapes
- Contribute, in collaboration with the other decentralized departments of the State, to the application of environmental regulations (registered and classified sites, outdoor advertising and signs);
- Integrate urban planning and renewal into a sustainable quality of natural and urban spaces.
DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Head of communication department
Odile MALLET - 07 64 61 53 18
Communications officer
Mickaël JULIEN - 06 63 78 48 29
communication.drac.ara@culture.gouv.fr
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