Infrastructure, suture and landscape
In the west-east direction there is a succession of urban fabrics at different scales and uses:-The large-scale Botanical Park and Olympic Park, of environmental, sports and cultural character;-Then, a heterogeneous fabric made up of residences, industry and commerce, with a predominance of residual areas, large parking areas and logistics;-A more homogeneous fabric is followed by
residential, educational and cultural uses, articulated by the Boulevard and Morgan Park;Finally, an industrial and sports fabric, where the Parc Champetre coexists with industries, divided by a largescale infrastructure: Montreal Terminal 52 with its large cranes, train tracks, and a large wall of containers that accentuate its restricted use and its denial of the St. Lawrence River.In this direction certain layers of analysis inform the reading of diverse urban strata: public parks, cultural facilities, educational facilities, sports facilities, urban agriculture, residual spaces, parking lots, markets.The greater overlapping of these strata conforms a linear tension that evidences a disintegrated and disarticulated system: we understand that what is important in systems are not the parts but their patterns of relationship, a projectual suture operation allows us to conform a new system. The structural combinations configure an infrastructure that starts from the Olympic Stadium in the direction of the San Lorenzo River. This device, with a linear direction, at times with protrusions and meanders, generates points of contact in those spaces of opportunity that activate public use. Fiction is the tool to highlight the complex nature of the state of affairs, it allows us to distance ourselves from reality in part and produce a less rudimentary but suggestive reality to discover new dimensions of urbanity:An infrastructure at times transgressive, invading already consolidated spaces, generating frictions between public and private, an aqueduct leads us to take water from the river and bring it into the city, a system of purification treatments through hydroponics re-configures the Boulevard, it learns from the green spaces that already work and integrates them into a new system more active and dynamic with the ecological.An impluvium collects rainwater and complements the uses in the community gardens of Maisonneuve, activating urban gardens and generating a point of production, recreation, shade, markets, education, culture, generating new links of the neighborhood and its experiences to the river.
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