Musique Douce seeks to subtly slow down human movement to encourage the movement of non-humans; a reinvention of the ecosystem around cohabitation.
In the interstices of a downtown area as dense as it is animated, the contact with the complexity of the natural world requires a repositioning of human relations. Musique Douce becomes the interface of these new relationships. At the confluence of urban activities, set back from mass movements, a thoughtful staging allows for different discoveries.
Between the city's wooded area, the flowery marsh and the festival cove, the user is gradually led to make his moment of passage an experience of contemplation and immersion. If movement remains intrinsic to the identity of the site, the invitation to stop gradually completes the daily life of this neighborhood. A possible stop, on a busy day or an intoxicating evening, where one notices the life beyond the city.
Musique Douce enriches the interactions. Enhancing the new pedestrian promenade of Maisonneuve Street where passers-by are redirected, the duality of its programming offers opportunities for appropriation that distinguish users without prioritizing them.
Structured by a network of basins that ensures the management of water on the site as well as the vitality of a rich ecosystem, three distinct universes meet on lot 066. While there is room for event-driven and technical overflow in the cove, the amalgamation of the bird's eye, the marsh and the woodland allows one to enjoy and watch the evolution of this distinctive natural environment.
To the west, one first passes through the town woodland, a sobering universe composed of a matrix of trees and shrubs that mimics the mature forest with its multiple canopy layers. This mixed woodland allows an evolving appreciation through the seasons and creates visual breakthroughs towards the city, towards the sky.
At the heart of the site is a wetland where the visitor rubs shoulders with a flowering marsh that stages an ecosystem of land and water crisscrossed with flowers that bloom in succession. This structuring ecological place lulls passers-by with its muted rhyme, to the delight of the birds that come to drink. The visitor who strolls through this environment will discover the bird's eye, a place of relaxation and interpretation where one can continue the discovery and contemplation.
To the east, where the Place des Festivals and the Promenade des Artistes meet, is the Anse des Festivals. Imagined as a place of effervescence, this space integrates architectural devices of refreshment and shade conducive to the pause. Dotted with planted areas, one can contemplate all the spectacles, those of the city and of nature.
Musique Douce recomposes the rhythm of the city with that of nature; the calm of one allows the vitality of the other. Through this new cohabitation, both the ecosystem of the Quartier des Spectacles and its imagination are transformed.
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