Stone Days. May 27 to 29. 2016. France.
The days of the stone back in Montalieu-Vercieu, with exhibitions, company visits and sites (Antiquaille in Lyon, laundry Optevoz), demonstrations, participatory workshop, inauguration ...
The carrier basin between Ain and Isère, has built its reputation in the nineteenth century. The event, which aims to account the expertise and local materials, is organized by the city of Montalieu-Vercieu and the Rhône-Alpes Natural Stones Association (Rhônapi) which brings together stone professionals, those working with celle- it (architects, designers ...), volunteers, researchers, elected officials ... She wants to boost local stone (extraction, transformation ...) and create a short circuit industry. Since 2015, with the right to geographical indications (GIs), this is to develop a brand, a local label. The stone extracted is a local product.
In Ninon Vallin-space, an exhibition will evoke, crude block to finished product, the destination of the material according to its qualities and from a modern construction material. At the House of the cement stone, the permanent exhibition is dedicated to him through his applications and know-how as well as men who worked for centuries.
The participatory construction of a half-day will allow everyone to appropriate expertise, which is lost, raising a wall with coping. At Optevoz, a roofing slate restoration project of a wash is underway. In Lyon, the site of the former Antiquaille's hospital visit. Its transformation into a 5-star hotel is conducted in a patrimonial approach, with stones of French origin, traditional techniques (lime plaster ...).
Marked trails in the heart of the quarry basin are multiple borrowing (Au wire Rhone, wash houses of the trail, gantry, laundries, the loop of Manyôs) to discuss history of man and technology, architecture, landscapes ... and visit the villages surroundings.
Local businesses open their doors (Euromarbles, Bugey careers, creative Pierre Guillet, Ravet SA) for meetings with actors die stone. The visitor will also attend a monumental installation of blocks and slices of stone carving demonstrations stone ...
