The general plan has evolved from the development of a new open Place, flanked by a small sandstone building, which is intended to recreate the historical arrival point by water at the foot of the City.
Today's shipping and river traffic will again have a visual focus on the Place and the newly developed flow of people around the water's edge.
The two distinct building scales of the present old city of Quebec, where large notable public and religious buildings are seen in juxtaposition with the intimate scale of the domestic street houses and small shops, have been transposed and extended into the new Basin development.
This contrast in scale has been maintained so that it may be seen when viewed from the town above and also be experienced by pedestrian moving within the confines of the project.
The genetic development of Old Quebec is one of mass, of solid and void, rather than an architecture of surface skins. This interplay of limited vista among the building blocks has been reproduced in the residential structures abutting Saint-Andre and the south side of the Basin.
Street lengths are kept short to recreate the City pattern of streets and to form open public spaces. The street itself becomes the communal extension of the houses it serves: a form of public room with the solid mass of the surrounding façade used to define the space. These public open spaces are supported by commercial and retail activity accessible from street level. Always the eye and the pedestrian is lead back to the promenade around the Basin.
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