Claiming the Courtyard - Addition to the Laval School of Architecture
The Laval University School of Architecture enjoys the surrounding and spaces of Quebec's UNESCO acclaimed Old City. The Old Seminary complex 1s deeply linked with the city's past and Canada's built heritage. Yet, as an enclosed monastery, it does not fulfill its full potential of interweaving the school of architecture with the city and conversing its students with the urban setting.
The proposed design attempts to deal with this by lowering the courtyard level to that of the garden on the eastern side of the complex, bridging between these two levels and creating and strengthening two perpendicular axes:
from the urban square - to the courtyard and garden, and from the proposed student complex - to the proposed workshop space (a hovering extension between the Bishops house and the historic Seminary building).
The axes acquire their position from the buildings historic courtyard entrances, attempting to strengthen them, and their relationship to the path leading out to the city square. The spaces that are enclosed between the axes and the historic building house the amphitheater, which ruts to use the existing entrance to the seminary from the city square as a public entrance.
The proposed student complex is positioned across the entrance to the school's primarily student-oriented wing. The lower level links the sunken courtyard, the lower entrance to the auditorium and the proposed location for the school's cafeteria. The exhibition space is accessible and visible from the path leading from the city square and looks clown to the courtyard and the cafeteria. The rooftop level serves as a playground and basketball court for the adjacent school, accessible from the building's northern elevation.
These additions serve to further integrate the school within its urban setting, attract the residents and visitors of Quebec to come in, explore and participate in its programs.
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