A landscape feature in the city
Building a new library is a gesture towards one's community, a gesture of openness, exchange, culture and urbanity. But building a new library is also a way of belonging to a society, a place of appropriation, where the user can find himself in front of the richness of our world and himself.
Here, our intervention is situated from the city to the book, carried by the gesture of building. Act of landscape, act of architecture, act of literature and act of urbanity, the new library transgresses its role. This daily place, dedicated to discovery and communication, is also a place of interaction, bringing together landscape and architecture. Our reflection is based on the user's perception of the library, a place where he projects himself and where he can interact with himself and others.
The new library is also a place of openness and exchange. Few libraries are established in social and cultural contexts as rich as the borough of Saint-Laurent. The richness brought by the newcomers marks the community. For this reason, the new library must support multiple activities, individual and collective activities, where everyone, depending on their origin, can learn to know themselves and others. It is impossible to fall into the universality of a place, but the foundations of each culture remain similar. Thus, the new building must offer a variety of atmospheres, spaces and times of discovery. It must offer places to meet and exchange. The architecture of such a library is then part of a process that favors interaction and, above all, appropriation. Its limits are not those of the building, but those of a society and an urbanity, they are sometimes real, sometimes diffuse, sometimes human, sometimes natural.
(From competitor's text)
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The parti offers a distinctive contemporary signature and the footbridge offers a new relationship with the City and the wooded area. The concept responds to the vision set out in the program: human, plural and green. It generates spatial, social and urban experiences. The project proposes an effective response to the challenge of the site and the functional program; it responds, through its imposing massing, to the desire for visibility and consolidation of the civic axis of Saint-Laurent. The position of the entrance prioritizes the pedestrian while regulating the location of the parking. The interior organization is functional and responds imaginatively to the program; it favours a relaxing atmosphere conducive to reading. The wood treatment of the roof contributes to accentuate the interior/wooded relationship. The sustainable development concept is innovative, clear and educational; the solar orientation is well exploited.
(From jury report)
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