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Ensemble au centre sportif - Expérience 1 / Together, Let's All Go to the Sport Center - Experience 1

Stage 1

Torres Medina + Villarraga Rondon (First prize)

St-Jean Labrecque (Second Prize)

Thu Tran (Third Prize)

Aline Eduarda Braz (Special merit award)

Julia Hihi

Tidjani

Cui + Pang

Dapha + Yapi +Youzan

Dhiraj Chaudhary

Corcuera Kayla Maebelle J. + Guisoben Maynard D. + Kimbungan Christiah Ann B.

Océane Mallette

Beauregard + Bibaud + Gagné + Rojas Galvis

Cipriano + Franco + Guerra

Ngoc Minh Dang + Chun Wang

Laheurte + Lopez

Bauer

Aziz Joseph + Drouin Emmanuel

Habib Aboubaker

Saad Malik

Arnavi Diwan

Miyazawa Setoguti

Mouhamed Niang

Briceno-Garcia + Deschênes + Stefan

Boubidi + Bougouffa + Cherouana + Dernani

Rodrigo Peixe

Araújo Bezerra e Silva

Pane Tighiouart

Muna

Heggenstaller Schoeberl

José Vargas-Zúñiga Soldevila

Lavoie

Li Xenia Xinling + Tsai Ming-Han + Tse Winwin Yu Ying

Mohamed El-Bayoumi

Sergei Konchekov

Dang + Gill + Khalid + Klassen + O'Bright + Patel + Zephyr

Noémie Lachance + Jolayne Barbeau

winner

Torres Medina + Villarraga Rondon

winner

St-Jean Labrecque

winner

Thu Tran

GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE COMPETITION

Year	2025
Location	2100 Bd Édouard-Montpetit Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Web Site	amenagement.umontreal.ca/recherche/concoursaccessibiliteinvisible/
Stage	One stage
Competitors	36

Price by stage	Three (3) prizes will be awarded: First prize (gold): $6,000.00 Second prize (silver): $3,000.00 Third prize (bronze): $1,500.00 All amounts are in Canadian dollars (CAD). All winners will also receive a certificate of merit.

Professional advisors	Marie-Claude G. Leclair, Anne Saint-Laurent
Doc. level	75%

Editorial

Announcement of the Winners of the Competition “Together, Let's All Go to the Sports Center!”

by , published 2025-10-23

The results of the international competition on invisible accessibility were announced on Thursday, October 23, 2025, during the annual symposium of the Faculté de l'aménagement at the Université de Montréal. Visit the pages for experiences 1, 2, and 3 to see all of the student proposals.

Description

This ideas competition is an initiative of the Faculté de l'aménagement of the Université de Montréal, designed to stimulate ideation and mobilize the creativity of young designers on the important theme of universal design.

The competition is multidisciplinary and internationally open to all university students, particularly in the fields of design, architecture and landscape architecture.

This competition is not a project competition: it is an ideas competition.

Projects submitted should not propose simple technical adjustments to the building or its site, but rather transformative ideas that offer inclusive and equitable experiences for all users.

EXPERIENCE 1 - ARRIVING AT THE MAIN RECEPTION AREA

Question

What form would an inclusive experience for arriving at the main reception area of the sports center take?

Journey sequence

A - Entering the multi-sports complex building from one or more sites of the public space:

- from the street (Boulevard Édouard-Montpetit or others)
- from the underground public transit (Métro Édouard-Montpetit or future Réseau express métropolitain)
- from the adapted parking and drop-off area
- from the adjacent outdoor terraces (Les Jardins)

B - Moving inside and/or outside the building to reach the main reception desk on the 4th floor (main service point)

C - Using the reception desk

D - Crossing the access points reserved for members

(From competition program)

Jury comments

Prior to the jury meeting, the jury members individually analyzed all the anonymous submissions and forwarded to the professional advisors the numbers of the 5 to 10 proposals deemed most relevant in terms of the five evaluation criteria set out in the competition rules, for each of the three competition experiences.
Jury members deliberate to select the best proposals for each experience, based on the evaluation criteria, and to designate the three winners for each experience. They may also award special mentions at their discretion.

[...]

The five (5) evaluation criteria in the Competition Rules are outlined by the professional advisors. These evaluation criteria relate to the issues and challenges specific to the project.

- Innovation: Innovative proposal and ability to go beyond the usual accessibility standards and technical solutions.
- Design principles: Clarity, relevance and consistency of proposed design principles to promote experiential quality.
- Equity: Indistinguishable design experiences for all users, with added value for everyone.
- Invisible accessibility: Quality of experience for all, with seamless, non-stigmatizing integration of universal accessibility into the built environment.
- Presentation and coherence: Clarity, coherence and evocative power of the proposal in terms of form and content

(From jury report)

List of Competitors

Competition staff and jury

Jury	Simon April, Directeur des formations et de la Défense des droits et Commissaire au Conseil National du Logement au Canada
	Stéphanie Barker, Directrice générale adjointe, CEPSUM et Carabins, Université de Montréal
	Sonia Gagné, Architecte
	Christelle Montreuil, Consultante en design inclusif et accessibilité universelle, présidente et fondatrice, firme de service-conseil Idéaux
	Kevin Ng, Directeur du contenu technique et des ressources du programme pour la certification en matière d’accessibilité, Fondation Rick Hansen
	Gilles Prud'homme, Architecte
	Edward Steinfield, Directeur Émérite, Centre for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDEA), School of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo
	Robert Wright, Professeur et précédemment Doyen, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, Université de Toronto

Calendar

May 1, 2025: Announcement of competition, documents available online, start of registration period
From May 8, 2025: Transmission of graphics files to registered competitors
July 1, 2025: Registration deadline
May 1, 2025 to July 10, 2025: Question period
May 8, 2025 to July 17, 2025: Publication period for addenda and answers to questions
By August 5, 2025 at 2:00 pm (UTC-5): Deadline for submission of proposals
August 5 to August 8, 2025: Analysis of conformity of proposals
August 8 to September 12, 2025: Jury meeting
October 23, 2025: Announcement of competition winners
October and November 2025: Publication of proposals and jury report

(From competition rules)

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