The Buëch-Durance Hospital is the heir to the departmental psychiatric hospital created in 1956 and built between that year and 1964. Its realization is made under the influence of a psychic current then innovative, institutional psychotherapy. It takes the form of a village hospital intended to offer patients a resocialisation framework that also questioned patient-physician relationships. The chief architect of the project was Jacques Carlu (1890-1976), first Grand Prix of Rome in 1919, architect and chief curator of the Palais de Chaillot, which, for this project, was strongly inspired by modern architecture. The chapel of the hospital is the most remarkable building, synthesizing all the principles adopted for the architecture of the site, while drawing inspiration from a plan drawn, at the request of the director Erwin Piscator, by the architect Walter Gropius for his "total theatre". It is decorated by three glass-slab windows, made by the Atelier Loire de Lèves (28), from drawings by Jacques Loire (1932-2021), then strongly inspired by Jean Bazaine and Alfred Manessier.
This visit will be associated with the presentation of an exhibition by Claude Queyrel and Pascale Stauth, visual artists, active in Marseille, who conducted a residency of several months within the CHBD, entitled "Miracles belong to everyone". It will take place in the hospital chapel.