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Ensemble au centre sportif - Expérience 3 / Together, Let's All Go to the Sport Center - Experience 3

Stage 1

Marisa Giammarco + Celia Zeng (First prize)

Cheung + Chui + Man + Uy + Wong (Second Prize)

Yunus Emre Bolat (Third Prize)

Cui + Pang

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

Sophia Nan

Beauregard + Bibaud + Gagné + Rojas Galvis

Chelsea Fuentes

Bauer

Aziz Joseph + Drouin Emmanuel

Beaudet + Leclerc

Audet + Denis + Giannotti + Mailloux + St-Louis

Eroglu + Goetz + Gregoire + Lawrence-Walters

Geoffroy + Lecomte

Pane Tighiouart

Javier Serra

Brenden Albert

Anna

Sergei Konchekov

Andrade + Araújo + Brito + Souza

Noémie Lachance + Jolayne Barbeau

winner

Marisa Giammarco + Celia Zeng

winner

Cheung + Chui + Man + Uy + Wong

winner

Yunus Emre Bolat

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	21

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%

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 3 - SWIMMING AT THE POOL

Question

What form would an inclusive experience of swimming (including navigation) take?

Journey sequence

A - Starting from the main reception desk

B - Getting to the changing rooms to change clothes

C - Accessing and using the pool

D - Returning to the changing rooms to change again

E - Returning to reception desk

(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, VP conception, associée principale, Provencher_Roy, FIRAC
	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)

Press Review

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