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Céline Mertenat, Véronique Bélanger, Julie Veillette, Geneviève Rousseau

Third Prize

Repenser et redéfinir le logement social au centre-ville de Montréal / Rethinking and Redefining Social Housing in Montreal's City Centre

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GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE COMPETITOR

Team	Céline Mertenat
	Véronique Bélanger
	Julie Veillette
	Geneviève Rousseau

Distinction	Third Prize
Doc. level	75%

Description

[the metropolitan bandage]
*totality of materials used to cover a wound, to protect it and favour its healing

1271 open air parking spots without vocational superposition are located on the site.
Bandage the parking. Montreal Patched

Laminate a complementary programme over an existing function.
A structural and infrastructural trellis acts as a bandage affixed on the site's zones occupied by parking.

A strip of architectural gauze functions as a linear park flying across the site from East to West allowing to place under observation the underbellies of the buildings and covering the stationary wound with a cataplasmic programme.
The operation aims to :
* establish a landscaping gesture, seen from the sky and from higher buildings, by applying a layer of vegetation on roof surfaces in the bandaged zone.
* temper the ground's asphalted surfaces.
* maintain the established commerce's service and maintenance accesses.
* offer a pedestrian walkway over the tumult.
* create a suspended garden giving level access to dwellings submersed in a sequences of internal courtyards.
* graft social housing for a progressive reconstitution of urban tissue
* gradually replace ground-level parking by collective amenities complementary to residential life

If, so far, it has been granted that so much space is used as parking and that their managers have not manifested the need to profit from their sites, can we conclude that the parking enterprise is a significant money-maker?

If, despite the reticence that is sometimes observed when confronted with social housing and its financing, could we allow ourselves to exercise the right to grant the same privileges to an individual as we do a vehicle?

No more, no Less
If a vehicle necessitates a parking space measuring 2.75 x 5.75m*; can we attribute this surface to a living cell?
If, to access a parking spot, it is recommended to allow a 10m* wide circulation lane: could we envision undertaking the same thing for an assortment of dwellings?

If a parking spot costs 10$/day**: what can we say of a dwelling of equal price?
310$/ month represents 27.6%**** of the monthly minimum wage.
All proportions conserved, a studio roughly 30m(2)*** downtown could be rented for the price of a vehicle's monthly parking.
Floors of housing are established by the dimensions and proportions granted to vehicular parking areas. The embedded parking acts as a studio and the manoeuvrable lanes becoming naturally cooled and ventilated collective spaces.

Garage doors, sliding doors to open up the studios, double and triple garages open onto the collective spaces in an optimal manner. Cobblestone and gutters to collect water and light, headlights, bumpers and exhaust pipes will be used for lighting, base and ventilation in this literal transposition of parking to dwelling....

The exercise may seem cynical; it nonetheless becomes an argument in favour of downtown social housing since it reveals the absurdity of not investing in the collective habitat when it would be a tangible way to sublimate transportation and habitation (motor of urban life) and to kick-start much sought after sustainable development.

* dimensions of a standard vehicle
**the highest parking rate found on the site during the summer
***surface area of the living cell and of the collective space corresponding to (15.8m2+13.75 m2)
**** FRAPRU considers that the amount reserved for rent must represent approximately 30% of an individual's revenue.

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