Doors open to the church Sainte-Bernadette

Name: Doors open to the church Sainte-Bernadette
Start: 2019-09-21T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2019-09-22T13:00:00+02:00
Location: Église Sainte-Bernadette de Nevers

Come discover this emblematic building of contemporary architecture.

21 and 22 September 2019Passed

Pascal François - Nevers Agglomération

emblematic Œuvre of Claude relative and of Paul Virilio, the new environmental accesses(neighborhoods) are adorned with a statue of the artist Xavier Veilhan representing Claude relative.
Welcome(Reception), presentation(display) of models, index cards(forms) of rooms …
Specific signposting for the public partially sighted person (tactile impressions(printings) and texts in Braille) who includes(comprises) QR codes giving access to audio contents. Selection of applications for smartphone accessible(approachable) with functionality " Voice Over ":

Scan - Reader of codes QR and of bar codes Paid(Profitable) (1,99€), exists in French: https://itunes.apple.com / fr / app / scan / id411206394? mt=8The
Free delightful reader, exists only in English: https://itunes.apple.com / fr / app / qrcode-the-delightful-reader / id948489462? l=en&mt=8
Paid(Profitable) BlindSquare (29,99€), exists in French more complete Application conceived(designed) with and for visually handicapped people which makes mainly from assistant to the travel(movement), it includes(comprises) a reader of QR-code. https://itunes.apple.com / fr / app / blindsquare / id500557255? mt=8
Partial Accessibility PMR

About the location

Église Sainte-Bernadette de Nevers

29-31 rue Claude-Parent 58000 Nevers

Nièvre
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Realised in 1966 in the district of Banlay then under construction, this church manifests the episcopal will to mark this peripheral space by appealing to big(great) architects. Project is led by Paul Virilio and Claude relative, inventor of slanting function(office) " in architecture. The church articulates(is expressed) around both inclined planes of the nave sheltered by two concrete(watertight) half hulls(shells). The expression of the porte-à-faux is obvious at the level of the facade and of the back, where the importance of the overhang creates an impression(printing) of imbalance. This instability joined(contacted) for the raw(gross) concrete makes from the outside a not very hospitable(hospital) place which contrasts with the softness of curves and of light of the cup-shaped nave." It is a very calculated church where nothing is left with chance. []. This breast-plate, terrible place, the threshold of which is difficult to cross(exceed), opens on a protective internal space". (Claude relative)