The celestial and impalpable light of the marquee projects a presence that is both vibrant and piercing. By day and by night, it reveals the entrance to Place des Arts through a subtle and magical play of light and shadow.
Dealing with the social event that is the show, the entrance of Place des Arts is theatricalized by new elements. The forecourt becomes a large public stage framed by mysterious glass curtains of a rich and deep blue. The sliding of the luminous canopy, floating gently over the forecourt, helps to articulate and dramatize the spatial staging of the entrance.
The scale and form of the canopy adapts to the nature and location of Place des Arts in the city, to the characteristics of the quadrangle and the buildings that form the square. From a distance, the marquee plays the role of a lighthouse, or a very large magic lantern suspended in the city landscape. With its clear and sober geometry, its soft and changing luminosity, it stands out clearly from the heterogeneous and talkative signs of Sainte-Catherine Street. Its simple form evokes the volumetry of the large buildings of Place des Arts that it identifies. On the scale of the square, it becomes a magnificent piece of urban furniture, a balcony extending the space of the square and opening onto Sainte-Catherine Street. At the street level, it defines an impressive, luminous and bewitching space: a grandiose entrance.
The signage is organized on the scale of the city and the Place des Arts entrance. It is articulated from two main elements, a large marquee and a set of two walls located on either side of the entrance.
At the scale of the city, and more particularly at the scale of Sainte-Catherine Street, the canopy, which is translucent and luminous, signals the presence of Place des Arts from afar. The interior of the marquee is equipped with projectors and its exterior surface acts as a screen on which images and colors can be projected to evoke the activities in progress. At the scale of the entrance, its presence and luminosity determine the space of an exterior parvis and magnify the threshold of the interior complex.
The resident companies and businesses as well as the activities in progress are uniformly identified, in a careful graphic staging, through the signage walls (the glass curtain) that frame the entrance. These walls also integrate the display of each company and an interactive information terminal.
Finally, an electronic display banner suspended under the marquee presents an uninterrupted stream of information on the holding of particular events, the schedule of shows, the availability of tickets, their prices, etc...
The new entrance structure is also, from the level of the square, an open balcony on Sainte-Catherine Street. The intervention is carefully proportioned to extend the space of the square and improve circulation.
The signage structure is delicately installed above and in front of the Place des Arts entrance, resting only on the latter, thus minimizing transformations of the structure and the envelope.
Dealing with the social event that is the show, the entrance is dramatized by the new elements that redefine it. The entrance square becomes a large public stage framed by mysterious glass curtains of a rich and deep blue, the signage walls. The sliding canopy, floating gently over the forecourt, helps to articulate and dramatize the spatial staging of the entrance.
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