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Béthune, France, Architect, Building, Architecture, Project, Proposal, Images, News
Halle Marché Permanent de Béthune
French building by Zvi Hecker Architekt
Date: 2008-
Architects: Zvi Hecker
Our intention is to give the city of Béthune a new contemporary
symbol while preserving its two most important elements: the Beffroi
and the Grand Place.

The Marché Permanent is designed as a sculptural
landscape - a terrace and open amphitheatre that extends the Grand
Place and reinforces its architectural identity.
Likewise the Beffroi, as can be seen from our plans, is
genuinely integrated into the new design. The tower and the Marché
create an architectural form of strength and originally, both complimenting
and contrasting each other, achieving a balance of old and new, vertical
and oblique. Two primary architectural forms brought together: the
tower and the urban terrace.
The Grand Place and the Beffroi are integrated not
only architecturally, but functionally as well.
On the ground level the market is organized on the 720 m² surface,
accommodating more stands than asked for in the program. The high
roof of the market provides the Marché Hall with a generous
space filled with natural light and good ventilation.
On the roof level an open air theatre is created - a new public space
overlooking the square, the tower and the city.
This space can be used everyday - providing people of all ages with
a place to sit down, play or listen to music, and as a space for diverse
performances and special events. One can imagine Racine being played
on this stage in the original costumes, actors descending from the
tower, using it at also as a dressing room, while the city becomes
its background.
Needless to say that contemporary music or sound & lumière
will be just as successful.
The Restaurant and the Coffee Shop are placed on the Mezzanine in
between the higher roof terrace and the Grand Place, accessible
from the ground floor both from the Marche or the Grand Place when
the market is closed.

As for the materials to be used for the construction of the Marché
Permanent, they will include metal, glass, concrete and stone,
combined in such a way as to create a dramatic sculptural effect.
We imagine a possibility to incorporate stone from the parking excavation,
or parts of recovered old walls, into the new structure of the Marche.
I think the people of Béthune will appreciate that the past
is respected, taken care of, and exposed in the new construction.
Our design introduces a distinguishable new urban element within the
city, yet that which also blends into the existing public space, in
a way similar to the Spanish Stairs in Rome or Antonio
Gaudis Park Guell in Barcelona. We envision that
the design of the Marche permanent, by its sculptural and functional
qualities, would revive the people and the city of Béthune
by providing a new, unique urban symbol that values their architectural
heritage.
Marche Permanent Bethune - images / information from Zvi Hecker
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Marche Permanent Bethune : Building Information
Halle Marche´Permanent, Bethune, France
client: Municipality of Bethune
address: Grand Place in Bethune
architect: Zvi Hecker , Architekt, Berlin / Amsterdam
collaborators: Jan Marcel Bruinshoofd, Paolo Fontana, Ingmar Faber,
Frederic Fourrichon, Falk Heuer, Sharon Kern, Aleksandra Kubos-Nowak,
Macej Markowski, Patrick McHugh, Katja Schmidt, Tai Schomaker, Bettina
Steinmann, Jana Ullrich.
contact architect, project manager: MAtthijs Bouw, One Architecture,
Amsterdam
structural engineer: Nortec Ingenieurie
area: 720 m2
competition: 2005
budget: 1,486 Mio. EU
content: Hall for food and no food daily market, café, terraces
on the roof like extension of the square and occasional performance
spaces.
Construction: concrete, steel, glass and stone.
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