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Concours Nordicité (Volet Étudiant) / Nordicity Competition (Student Category)

Stage 1

Manon Otto (First prize ex aequo)

Mikael St-Pierre / Audrey Girard / Eadeh Attarzadeh (First prize ex aequo)

Jean-Philippe Simard / Alexandre Hamlyn / Émilie Gagné-Loranger / Julien Beauchamp (Mention)

Anthony Bouchard / Étienne Coutu-Sarrazin / Éric Lizotte

Laurie Loison / Blessy Zachariah / Laura Pfeifer / Chelsea Medd

Clémentine Hederer / Maya Gana / Nancy Dubeau

Audrey-Maude Gosemick / Marie-Renée Vial / Camille Lepage-Mandeville / Matthieu-Nicolas Devito

Éloïse Choquette / Catherine Gagnon-Leblanc

René Vu / Jonathan Allen / Carmen Bossé / Stéphanie Paré

Bo Tellier

Raphaël Désilets / Audrey Bertrand / Sandrine Dufresne-Aubertin

Maxime Lebleu / Raphaël Millette / Yannic Ryan

winner

Manon Otto

winner

Mikael St-Pierre / Audrey Girard / Eadeh Attarzadeh

GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE COMPETITION

Year	2013
Location	Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Web Site	aduq.ca/concours/concours-nordicite/
Stage	One stage
Competitors	12

Price by stage	1st prize - 500 $ Public's choice - 150 $

Client	Association du Design Urbain du Québec
Professional advisor	Christine Robitaille
Doc. level	75%

SIMILAR COMPETITIONS

Concours Nordicité (Volet Professionnel) / Nordicity Competition (Professional Category)

Description

This ideas competition invites designers to create urban installations or public spaces offering a singular experience, specific to the winter season. Project ideas must be creative, intelligent, original and participatory, conducive to pedestrian exploration and dynamic, making outdoor spaces come alive every day and attract more users.

The location, within the province of Quebec, is at the discretion of the participants , but it must be real and clearly identified. You're invited to choose "common" places, used by the people on a daily basis rather than the places already invested by existing events. The propositions can range from pinpoint interventions to larger scale ideas, with everything in between. In brief, there is no definite goal to the projects other than to help the urban environment emulate the everyday winter city life and experience it in new and unconventional ways.

(From competition program)

Jury comments

General comments

The jury notes the great interest that the competition has aroused in both the "professionals" and "students" categories. It also underlines the quality of the submitted proposals.

Some proposals could be grouped into three categories of "families" developing similar intentions. They were identified as ideas developing either modes of transportation, more artistic interventions or even destination places specific to winter.

The jury's deliberations were the subject of important and lively debates regarding urban design approaches. The question of the feasibility of the proposals, even though it was a competition of ideas, was also raised. Thus, all the projects submitted also allowed for interesting discussions on the approaches to be recommended for future concretization and implementation of the ideas.

The duality between summer versus winter use, cold versus warm was put forward and appealed to many of the members.

Several proposals opted for a narrative tone, anchoring the winter urban project primarily in small "revealing" gestures rather than large projects.

(From jury report)

(Unofficial automated translation)

List of Competitors

Competition staff and jury

Jury	Caroline Gagnon, Directrice
	Jérôme Glad, Etudiant
	Paula Meijerink, Architecte de paysage
	Christian Savard, Directeur
	Pierre Thibault, Architecte

Calendar

Contest Launched : Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Registration deadline: Friday, February 15, 2013, 17h.
Submissions deadline: Friday, March 15, 2013, 17h.
Deliberation of the jury: April 4, 2103
Winners announcement and proposals exhibition: 25 April, 2013

(From competition program)

Press Review

Concours Nordicité, 2013, Kollectif

Concours Nordicité : le palmarès, 2013, Le Courrier de l'Architecte

List of general documents

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Programme
Liste des participants
Rapport du jury (global)
Liste des participants
Article de presse

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