Theatre as a social incubator
The context of the architectural intervention
As an interface between 'nature' and 'culture', the new theater of Vieux-Terrebonne, wants by its intimate symbiosis with the landscape while the riverside landscape of Terrebonne becomes its architecture.
The architectural parti, a synthetic assembly of scenes
Delimiting the eastern border of the park, the new theater of Vieux-Terrebonne appears as a monolith pierced by enclosed gardens. These gardens are the link of the project. The calculated juxtaposition of the city and the landscape that takes place there produces unexpected stagings.
Walled gardens: three fictions
The gardens are optical mechanisms. They transform the reading of the given context. In contact with their respective environments, the gardens become imbued with their most obvious qualities: the agitation of the public square, the immensity of the Thousand Islands River, and the vibrant greenery of the park.
The spatial organization
The proposed theatre ensemble brings together three main components: the public square, the performance hall itself and the natural amphitheatre. The most urban space in the park, the public square with its magnolia grove, adjacent to St-Pierre Street, is the forecourt of the new theater. As the population floods in on show nights, their passage through the building's embrace is projected onto the main façade of the theater. The show starts from the public square. Thus split in two, the wooden box of the performance hall itself is on the St. Mary's Street side, while the administrative functions and the dressing rooms open onto the park. The upper foyer straddles these two programmatic zones and provides a panoramic view of both the riverfront landscape and the city.
(From specialized magazine)
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The jury appreciated and highlighted the following elements:
The architectural design
- The appropriateness of the architectural choice, the quality of the implementation on the site and the planning of the components of the Theatre.
- The project distinguishes itself by the complicity and the dialogue it generates with the riverside landscape, the Vieux-Terrebonne and the activities of the Park. Like an intimate symbiosis between the architecture of the Theatre, the waterfront landscape and the Old Terrebonne.
The approach
- The sensitivity of the approach and the taking into account of the points of view of various actors (citizens, users, personnel, public, artists, technical teams), the users of the Park and those of the Theatre.
- The spatial richness of the programming in terms of the different scales of intervention and
of interventions and the different actors involved.
The planning
- The clarity of the spatial organization and the rigor of the planning.
- The relevance of the flexibility and functional versatility offered by its layouts.
- The simplicity of the volumetric response and of the project as a whole.
- The quality of the programmatic responses and the links maintained between the different components of the project.
Integration and landscape
- The integration of the Theatre through its size and the use of traditional materials.
- The urban presence towards the corner of St-Pierre / Ste-Marie and the Vieux-Terrebonne that the positioning of the foyer offers, the link that it makes with the river and the functional flexibility that its layout offers.
- The programmatic enhancement of thematic gardens to complement the civic park.
- The desired links between the outdoor and indoor spaces and their complementarity.
- The potential of the links with the landscape and the city that the project suggests, beyond the limits of the building.
- The jury questioned the evolution of the architectural treatment between the 1st phase and the 2nd phase.
(From jury report)
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