A pictorial testament to Jean-Paul Riopelle, L'Hommage à Rosa Luxemburg is certainly the best-known work of the painter, and by the same token, of the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec. Composed as a triptych, each part represents an important moment or phase of life. The work is coded, encrypted in its title by the reference to Rosa Luxemburg.
For the present project, the code has been stripped down, abstracted into four major movements: the tonal zones, the black vibration, the colored circles and the white birds. These movements form the pavement through a mosaic of pavers and the insertion of white concrete birds. In the plazas, the black vibration flows into the plain pavement and the white concrete birds rise up to form benches and temporary scenes. The three parts direct passersby to three locations in the neighborhood, but the code remains open to multiple interpretations. The content of the museum shifts to the outside and thus becomes the city itself.
Transfer of content, but also transfer of container. The new museum pavilion lends its forms and proportions to the new urban furniture. Orthogonal, glowing, floating volumes now punctuate the neighborhood in the form of benches and streetlights. As with the architecture of the museum, nature takes over the new equipment through the ingenious integration of a planter into the streetlight and the development of a green roof on the gas station recycled into a public building.
In terms of urban organization, the proposal requalifies three types of places: the public square, the street and the alley. Although bordered by one of the most prestigious urban parks in the world, the Montcalm district offers its residents neither a square nor a public square. Thus, the project proposes a route punctuated by four squares or plazas, from the entrance of the new pavilion to René-Lévesque Boulevard. The street also regains prestige through the presence of the mosaic of paving stones, the sidewalks at the same level as the street and the play of symmetry-asymmetry of the street trees. On a more intimate scale, the alleyway is reinvented as a shaded passageway offering social or commercial potential for nearby restaurants.
These interventions have a unique purpose; to offer residents and visitors a sense of belonging and exclusivity to the neighborhood, but also to the artistic institutions it hosts. The mosaic of paving stones, the white concrete birds and the urban furniture will become the discouraged symbols of a vibrant and intimate neighborhood.
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