Set in a rose garden, the Glass Pavilion opens widely onto the garden and the summer rose garden of the botanical garden. It completes, towards the north, the string of greenhouses and is attached to the Bouchard space. A double skin of glass, transparent and mobile, forms its facades. A high-performance envelope for the room and gradually opening up until it is completely open, it creates a protected and clement climate for the hundred or so climbing roses, in bloom almost all year round. Interior curtains and folding doors allow variable configurations, multiplying combinations and configurations with the Bouchard space. In summer, with all facades open and folded, the space, without limits, simply sheltered by its roof, merges with the garden and the rose garden.
THE APPROACH AND THE ARCHITECTURAL PARTY
Immersed in the exceptional context of the Montreal Botanical Garden, the Glass Pavilion project proposes to take advantage of the living beauty of the garden while responding to the desire for a new practical, multifunctional and flexible facility that would offer a great deal of freedom of use.
A PRAGMATIC RESPONSE TO THE PROGRAM'S DESIRES
The project aims to respond in a simple and pragmatic way to the desires formulated in the program for the creation of a multifunctional, high-capacity and very flexible hall. The multi-purpose hall, its hall and annexes occupy the entire surface of the allocated land. The floor level and the headroom under beam are strictly identical to those of the André Bouchard hall in order to facilitate the mutualisation and the continuity of the two spaces in terms of use and handling. The space of the multifunctional room is large, free, and clear of any structure. Its floor and the structure of its envelope are of high capacity; they allow heavy loads to be placed, temporary structures to be erected, and elements to be suspended from the beams of the structure. The spaces that require a direct link with the active hall - unloading dock, catering area, plant preparation - are positioned in such a way as to make their use very simple and efficient. The other support and storage spaces are positioned on the upper floor or in the basement in order to free up space on the garden level and to open up the views to the outside. The interior allows the cyclical, seasonal and daily climatic variations of the external light and thermal conditions to be perceived. In the evening, the glass pavilion is visible and bright from the garden.
PLEASURE AMONG THE ROSES
Around this space, the project proposes, in the height and interior thickness of its double glass façade, the creation of a "glass rose garden", where climbing roses are planted in the ground around the periphery of the Pavilion. Decorative and poetic elements, they are a delicate attention for the users of the multifunctional room from the inside and for the visitors of the botanical garden from the outside. In summer, they contribute to the luminous and thermal comfort of the interior spaces. Taking advantage of the climate of the double skin, we propose to complete the collection of the existing rose garden by different varieties of climbing evergreen roses, rustic or not, planted in the ground around the periphery of the building. They rise to a height of about 5 m, making the place inhabitable, whether it is in activity or not. This choice will be discussed and clarified with the specialists of the botanical garden, in coherence with the mission of conservation, education and research. ...see through the roses... ...see the roses from the outside from the botanical garden... Roses form façade events in a variety of locations throughout the building. The glass rose garden is not only a decoration. Through these plants and their flowers, poetry, conviviality, are permanent and present inside the built space.
(From competitor's text)
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- The project, of great simplicity, proposes a compact volume, an all-glass box whose double walls house a rose garden on espalier, four (4) seasons.
- In addition to responding effectively to the PFT, this plan ensures a vegetal connection with the Rose Garden and a functional connection with the André Bouchard Hall; the simplicity of the glass box is in continuity with the Biodiversity Centre.
- The form adopted ensures an elegant and discreet closure of the greenhouse sequence. The concept does not make it a pavilion/object but a junction between the greenhouse sequence and the Rose Garden. The solution is consistent with LEED criteria and is in keeping with a vision of biophilia.
- A striking and relevant architecture because only Space for Life can realize such a project.
(From jury report)
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