☉ City of gastronomy is a finalist proposal by Collection Architectes for Valence Municipality in 2023. It is located in Valence France in a riverside and urban setting. Its scale is medium with a surface of 6.500 sqm. Key materials are concrete and glass.
At the gates of Valence, in the heart of the rapidly developing lower town, the site dedicated to the operation is remarkably well located along the main traffic arteries and just a stone’s throw from the historic center of Valence. The site is highly visible and offers a beautiful panorama of the old town, the hills of Saint-Péray and the Château de Clussol, and more broadly, the Rhone Valley.
It was therefore natural for the city of Valence to choose this location for a unique and unifying program based on a universal theme: gastronomy. This is the basis for the project we are proposing: an alliance between the land, history and the territory. A project anchored in its values and which translates its ambition into a meaningful building: an exemplary showcase and representative of the territory.