Chapelle Notre-Dame de l'Assomption à Courchevel 1850

English translation

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History

In 1947, an open-air chapel, made of a wooden roof structure of pyramidal shape, is built at the location of the current church. In November 1950, a project for a church established by Laurent Chappis, town-planning architect of the resort is refused by the bishop of Tarentaise. The final project is designed in 1953 by Denys Pradelle, with the collaboration of Jean Prouvé, architect engineer, and carried out in two successive stages: 1953, and 1955, for the sacristy. In 1970, the chapel undergoes a lateral extension by displacement of the south-west glazed facade, and a longitudinal extension by the construction of an entrance porch, carried out by Philippe Quinquet, architect. A detached bell tower is built in 1992. The building is constructed on one level, with a single-pitch roof resting downstream on a reinforced concrete masonry wall, dressed with stone masonry inside, and upstream on a system of fine metal posts and raw reinforced concrete beams. The south facade is glazed, made up of aluminum joinery, with a fixed part and a sliding part, whose opening allows the nave to be enlarged towards an outdoor space arranged in steps. A porch tower in dressed stone masonry is located at the western end of the glazed facade