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Atelier TAG / Architecture 49

Winner

L'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal : Phase A-4, volet muséal

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Rendered Museum Plan

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Rendered Drum Plan

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Rendered Mezzanine Plan

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Museum Plan

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Mechanical and Structural Museum Plan

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North and Est Tower Plan

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Mechanical and Structural Walkway Plan

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Drum Plan

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Mechanical and Structural Drum Plan

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Mezzanine Plan

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Mechanical and Structural Mezzanine Plan

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Ramp Plan

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Oculus Plan

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Mechanical and Structural Oculus Plan

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Mechanical and Structural Lanternon Plan

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Basilica Plan

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Oculus Stairs Structure

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GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE COMPETITOR

Competitor	Atelier TAG
	www.ateliertag.com

	SDK et associés
	www.sdklbb.com

	Stantec
	www.stantec.com/fr

	GSM Project
	www.gsmproject.com/fr/

	Architecture 49
	architecture49.com/

	CS Design
	www.designcs.ca/


Distinction	Winner
Doc. level	75%

Description

Overall Experience

St Joseph's Oratory is the result of infectious dream. Founded by Brother André with immediate popular support, the sanctuary grew little by little over time, and through will of the growing congregation. A place of welcome, peace and inspiration, its purpose remains while being constantly updated.
By entering into the inter-dome, the visitor explores a hidden and long inaccessible dimension of the Oratory. This discovery reveals a deeply human adventure, whose cycle is divided into four stages:
1. The rise - Quest and anticipation of a transcendent experience
2. The heights - Sense of accomplishment and elevation
3. The path - Complicity with the constitutive hopes and efforts of the place
4. The foundation - Encounter with the faces that contributed to the humain endevour

The climb (stairs or elevator)

By the elevator, the visitor's ascent embodies in itself a strong sensory moment, composed of the physical sensation of elevation and the sentiment of anticipation. By the stairs, with the added physical effort, the experience is transformed even more clearly into a quest for transcendence.
To accompany the visitor, a sound and light environment marks the stages of his progression, gradually giving it a sublime character. Upon arrival at the top of the interior dome, the visitor feels awaken, receptive - ready for the experience he will experience in the heights.

The heights (oculus)

The summit of the interior dome becomes the interactive theater of an immersive experience, in chiaroscuro, where the light touches the visitor both literally and figuratively. In this inspiring and mysterious environment, projections recall the peculiar luminous effects of religious architecture, arousing a sense of wonder.
Thus is captured for example the daily passage of sun in a chapel, its course across a stained glass, the moving shadow of a column or statue, the momentary illumination of a work of art or the crossing of a ray of light in the space. Here the immersive experience with nature and its representation through the history of art confers a soothing sensation of elevation to the visitor, erasing for a moment the noise of the city and its everydayness.
Analogical to the image of peace and inclusion of the Oratory, the visitor enters into communion with the place, both spiritually and physically; his body itself illuminated at times through the promenade, he projects his shadow on the wall of the outer dome, merging with the projected scene.

The path (ramp)

Going back down the ramp, the spectacle on the outer dome goes on uninterrupted, evolving gradually towards a more terrestrial dimension. In the higher part, opportunistic devices spontaneously encourage plays of hand shadows on the walls. The visitors-interpreters hence develop a sentiment of complicity, pleasure and sense of belonging to the immensity of the immersive space.
Further on, other hands from the past join in, testifying to the hopes and the human labor that forged the place; hands extended, in prayer, represented in the art works of the oratory - statues, stained glass windows, wrought iron -, the gestures of pilgrims and visitors touching the feet of a statue, lighting lanterns, the busy and agile hands of the construction workers.

The Foundation (mezzanine and tambour)

At the bottom of the dome, the human adventure is embodied in the faces of the pilgrims and craftsmen of the Oratory. The faces of the workers who erected the sanctuary and those of the numerous crowds who have visited, plunge into that of the visitor, directly challenging him.
These impressive photographs, covering the circular wall of the tambour, speak of the will behind the pursuit of the dream, the effort behind the realization, the authenticity of the prayers, the diversity of the people, the large attendance of the place and therefore its essential character.

(Competitor's text)

Jury Report

(Click French version to read the jury's comments)

List of accessible documents

33 scanned / 32 viewable

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