The implementation of breakthroughs, places of activities linking the city center and the promenade is proposed along the sea-river axis. They encourage the appropriation of the space adjacent to the Promenade des Capitaines. A sculptural axis is created along which public spaces are juxtaposed and are in constant relation with the building, urban life and the river.
The building asserts its presence on both Saint-Jérôme and Otis Streets through the façade reading of the activities it houses. It is integrated by a fragmentation of volumes, on the reduced scale of the surrounding constructions. The visual clearing created by the animated square frames and revalorizes this site charged with history, the more than one hundred year old landscape of the Saint-Jérôme church and its presbytery.
The relationship between downtown and the Promenade des Capitaines is defined by the natural movement of a pathway that leads from the city to the river and from the river to the city. Implanted from east to west, the Maison de la Culture becomes the confluence of the island, the link between the street and the promenade, the crossroads of cultural and tourist activities.
(From ARQ Magazine #86 August 1995, p.26)
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