LOOP
It is the music of the urban staged.
It is the rhythm of the city that is repeated, amplified and modified by the new urban filter of the Champs-de-Mars. The citizen is both spectator and musician. The passer-by interprets the sounds, the lights, and discovers under a new light the internal mechanisms of the city.
Our relationship with sound is linked to our rhythm of life: music and movement, silence and reflection, discussion and exchange. Our relationship to place is deeply marked by its sound experience: the waves on the beach, the wind in the leaves, a child's first words...
In its current state, the city is responsible for a negative relationship we have with sound: references to noise, unpleasantness, chaos. We try to isolate ourselves from it, with more or less success, by closing our windows, putting on our headphones, taking a pill.
Loop is a pedestrian filter that reverses this trend to offer a different urban experience.
(From competitor's text)
(Unofficial automated translation)
The jury appreciated the strong stand taken regarding the revelation and interpretation of the site's underground transportation infrastructures: the subway and the highway. It is particularly expressed by the illumination and metaphorical sound of the square according to the underground vehicular flows. The proposed surface is formed of superimposed strata that allow a programmatic use - which is to be determined - of the various street fronts. At this stage, it leaves room for other interventions in front of the historic buildings. Its strata unfold to integrate a vast building that proposes to close the square at the western end of the site, giving it a first built front that is a striking contemporary gesture. Facing the new courthouse of high stature, the proposed building - although imposing - is designed to harmonize formally with it, in a tower/bar balance. This new construction would be part of the extension of a sequence of buildings from west to east; Place Bonaventure, the Caisse de Dépôt and the Palais des Congrès. This building, which asserts itself very strongly in relation to a west-east (transversal) urban context, frames a public space facing the Champ-de-Mars and offers a significant potential for use, possibly for municipal or public services.
(From jury report)
(Unofficial automated translation)
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