Great Sudbury is a city that has been recognized for the big lakes that surround it, the forests and hills that frame it and the great history of multiculturalism. A city founded by a historic event that opened the way to mining and lumber production, which dominated its economy. This being the main reason for the environment deterioration in forests, lakes and wildlife. With the help of mining, the arrival of the railroad strongly boosted the city's development, that by consequence caused a strong negative environmental and social impacts; blurred the morphological structure of the city and created an urban segregation barrier in the downtown development, breaking its relationship with the city and limiting its transversal continuity, especially the pedestrian one.
A city-scale strategy is proposed as a tool for development and progressive growth under three fundamental principles: CONNECT - INTEGRATE- RESIGNIFY. These arise from the need to articulate the city nodes with the city's downtown, to redraw it's the morphological structure and to recognize the patrimonial and cultural values that compose it. An URBAN MUSEUM is proposed as a strategy to attract and connect with locals and newcomers, in by which a narrative between Nature and Public Space will dictate the experience where enthusiasts of culture, history, science, technology and arts can gather around and learn from the city by incentivizing an active dialogue between the artist and the viewers. The creation of a different kind of museum, that doesn't have walls but the entire city as an urban body to explore.
The concept of "Museum" is, by definition an "Area that is open to the public, that acquires, preserves, investigates, communicates, exposes and exhibits, with educational purposes, and with cultural value'. An interactive, sensitive, and creative, multicultural museum open to all. Through an interactive pedagogy, the museum's park seeks to resignify the representative values of the city, through four exhibition rooms distributed thru the park, where topics such as science, technology, culture, economy, history, lakes, forests, rivers, agriculture and the railroad are exposed. The museum's park is an open area in the downtown that takes over the current railroad parking lots. This will redraw the downtown's image and will give importance to the railway line recognizing its current operation. Submerged within the park, interwoven in the vegetation and the topography, the permanent exhibition rooms of the museum are articulated with the public space, and open towards the park Allowing the definition of a museum to be reinterpreted not as a building, but as an open space that allows you to experience the museum in a different way, one in which the streets become the exhibition An urban landscape that encourages its visitors to wander through its interactive routes that not only blend the natural and the urban context but also, in an interactive manner, tells the great history of the city throughout the different scenarios of the project. Accompanying the permanent exhibition rooms, the park is endowed with open stages, outdoor museums that allow the interaction of recreational, academic, sporty and contemplational activities; representative landscapes that help to recover and reverse the deterioration of the flora and fauna in the city, that has been caused by the development of the mining and railway industry; scenarios that immense the value of water not only as a vital source of life but also as a humanity's patrimony. The recognition of indigenous cultures, providing them with protective spaces to exhibit their ancestral values.
Currently, the center of Greater Sudbury obscures the role of the pedestrian in its urban structure, where vehicles and parking lots take center stage, occupying large areas, thus contributing to the deterioration of the environment and the quality of public space. The railway being installed in the downtown, generates a great void in the city, disjointing and creating an urban segregation barrier that prevents the relationship between the downtown and the nearby urbanizations. The project seeks, through integration strips, to articulate existing, projected and proposed urbanizations, so that their activities are in relation and in function of the museum. A downtown for pedestrians that allows to explore every corner to enjoy the architectural and environmental landscapes that the museum offers Through the museum's park, il is planned to rebuild the urban fabric and project a progressive growth through four quadrants that are developed by strips Two types of residential densification are proposed dense high-rise housing, and a productive housing that links residents to participate in collective agricultural activities. The urban profile of the historic downtown is rebuilt, through the proposal of new buildings that make up the blocks from the street and inside them, create courtyards-like scenarios that accompany the museum's function as traveling rooms, spaces where urban artistic interventions are performed in an open-air room delimited by the buildings of the historic downtown. With these new interventions in buildings, a polycentric city is generated where shops, facilities, parks, recreational areas and housing are within a 15 minutes range for pedestrians. As such, this will lessen the need for the citizens to drive long distances by car, thereby reducing the ecological footprint of the city, through a "Fifteen Minute City ».
Greater Sudbury is the result of a fusion of urban settlements within the great boreal landscape, currently disjointed and disconnected from each other, turning the city into a set of centralities only connected by main avenues, which, added to the anthropic intervention caused by urban development and growth, has disconnected and deteriorated the environmental structure of the city, forcing the disappearance and migration of species. Therefore, although the project's intervention focuses in the city's heart the environmental and urban corridors translated into the museum galleries, are proposed to integrate, connect and resignify the structuring systems articulated to the downtown, thus bringing the museum to the entire city, through stations located along the route that correspond to urban and environmental dynamics and also, that locus on the demonstration of artistic, cultural, historical pieces, as well as landscape science or technology ones, highlighting the significant values of the city with an interactive pedagogy.
Through scenarios or stations, each gallery introduces a wildlife platform in relation to anthropic activities, the landscape and their relationship with the theme. From the museum's park, the aim is to generate a logic for structuring the city, that serves as a tool for future developments and growth, and through the galleries to mimic the activities proposed in the city's downtown towards the rest of the city. Building not only a sustainable city, but also a sustainable and creative attitude that generates positive transformations in the urban and territorial context.
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