LA CITÉ DES ARTS

A cultural, architectural, environmental and urban project created in 2006 by the Grand Besançon Association, the Franche-Comté region and the city of Besançon, under the pencil and features of the architect Kengo Kuma. When the encircles art sets out and disseminates art. On the one hand, the meanders of the banks of Doubs, calm and winding; on the other the hills bisontines, proud, surplombées the high walls of the Citadel, at the crossroads of nature and urban… The Cité des arts, a true work, apparently inspired by the famous Land Art, which exhibits and exhibits in two buildings with ichimasu facades, with draughtboards motifs (clin of the Japanese textiles reinterpreted in architectural way by the use of wood, glass and grey aluminium panels, expressing calm and simplicity), meeting under the same monumental landscape roof and pixellisée de of vegetation, aluminum and glass, and photovoltaic panels, making it a kind of Rubik's Cube vegetable. In a random appearance, these motifs echo the surrounding landscape and respond in an ecological and energy way to the needs of sheltered spaces. They create a game of shade, light and glare, which, associated with the Passage of the Arts and the Mirror Basin, places of transit and water storage, allow it to blend wonderfully in this landscape, a natural masterpiece. A book of 11 000 m ² also housed the Conservatoire à Rayonnement régionale (CRR) of the Grand Besançon, responsible for training in music, dance and the theatre of more than 1 500 pupils each year, in premises whose surface will be doubled, and the Regional Fonds d'Art Contemporain (Frac) of Franche-Comté, the unique collection representative of contemporary creation in the region, has thus obtained from the Région. large premises to expose, produce, promote, promote, disseminate and make art with a great A! A closed, open, popular and pleasant place, where beginners or connoisseurs are like fish in water: Art in what it is naturally beautiful!