SITE: MONTREAL
Ultra-Close Domestic Network
An Interior Network
An inhabited downtown must respond to imperatives beyond economic and spatial rational that dictates current development. To gain an actual human weight and an actual memory, the city centre must now be looked at from an interior point of view - one that defies conventional notions of measure, authority, dimension, and scale.
In order to avoid ghettoization and to create a true diversity, we should most certainly not look to compete with the traditional mode of urban implantation, but should instead take advantage of what it rejects and leaves behind. Montreal's city centre is home to a formidable network of back alleys which form numerous interior voids, sewing together intimate links with the metropolis.
An Architecture of Infiltration
The architecture of these metropolitan interiors, fashioned of ambiguous relationships which create friction, is truly open to the city. As such, alleys a invested in a way that unveils a secondary network in the city centre, ideal for domestic intervention.
Social housing must therefore push its way into the heart of this intimate network - and it is this intrusion itself which redefines the relationships of proximity and neighbourhood, as well as the rapport between the elements and light.
An architecture of infiltration uses hyper-proximity to define its new dwelling conditions and the open parameters of its domestic network. Modest interventions, dictated by the intimate conditions of the interior network, constitute an injection of domesticity into the heart of metropolitan activity.
Domestic Interface
The architecture of social housing in the city centre is a holistic part of its environment. It links the public space of the street to the intimate space of the alley through a new way of living. Housing offers an additional dimension of intimacy within the urban room of the alley.
While it is solidly anchored to the ground by its base, the housing features a suspended space, which acts like a filter to various nuisances and by way of its verticality, ensures a sense of refuge. It provides an interactive space and creates a forum for exchange with the activity of the city.
The occupants, from their very first step into the abodes, live an upward journey - without ever dominating the city, while the ascending movement guarantees a great functional flexibility and a freedom of movement on this folded interior. More than a refuge within the city, urban social housing is an integrated shell within the metropolitan condition: an urban interior which is lived in and rehabilitated.
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