Patrimoine Art déco en béton
France is rich with emblematic examples of Art Deco heritage in reinforced concrete. The best known are doubtless the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the Palais de Chaillot and the Palais d’Iéna in Paris. This type of heritage is also present in a broad variety of constructive types, usages and decorati...
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Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
2025-04-01
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| Series: | In Situ |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/insitu/44751 |
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| Summary: | France is rich with emblematic examples of Art Deco heritage in reinforced concrete. The best known are doubtless the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the Palais de Chaillot and the Palais d’Iéna in Paris. This type of heritage is also present in a broad variety of constructive types, usages and decoration. It includes numerous religious buildings such as the church of Notre Dame Auxiliatrice, at Nice, dwellings like those of the former Compagnie Générale des Accidents, at Nantes, or other public buildings such as the town hall of Le Touquet. The geographical spread of these buildings is also a broad one, from the Dhuoda Lycée at Nîmes to the Dinan railway station and also overseas, like the Aubéry Chateau at Ducos, in Martinique. These buildings constructed in reinforced concrete during the first decades of the twentieth century have undergone the assaults of time, of pollution and, sometimes, of aggressive environments. They can also suffer from the technical audacities of their time of construction and the experimentation of novel techniques and materials, such as lithogenous renderings. The result is that many of these buildings today present alterations that require special attention in order to preserve their authenticity. From the early 1990s, the French Ministry of Culture and its historic monuments research laboratory undertook systematic research to draw up inventories of the heritage of reinforced concrete and carried out in-depth studies into concrete pathologies and possible ways of restoring concrete. Certain solutions have been identified and applied to the Art Deco heritage, in the cleaning of the Chaillot Palace, for example, or the cathodic protection of the Touquet town hall. However, other solutions are still to be developed, in particular for roof vaults associating glass and concrete, and for certain complex elements of decoration such as the monumental sculptures in concrete by Carlo Sarrabezolles at Villemomble. |
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| ISSN: | 1630-7305 |