ARCHITECTURAL AND MECHANICAL CONCEPT
VISION
The library project of the St-Laurent district insists on the importance of offering a narrative capacity whatever the scale approached, built and landscape, the proposal is thought as the "living together", and thus the exchange, and this by multiplying the routes, the freedom of the place, the possible uses, the atmospheres.
The project must pay particular attention to the issues of the relationship between the site and its context while ensuring visibility, but also accessibility and a welcome to its various audiences.
POTENTIALS
The site is located in a mixed neighborhood, as much in its diverse population as in its history and architecture.
Between Thimens and Cavendish boulevards, Marcel Laurin Park and the sports, civic and educational facilities that are attached to it, constitute a composite and dynamic space in the heart of the borough, whose path opens onto a different plant landscape. From this geographical situation appears the need to create a link. The public character of the new cultural, civic and recreational center, and the connectivity of the landscaping are central themes in the development of the project.
OBJECTIVES
The recommended approach implies a sustainable vision of the architecture; a sustainable project that takes into account all the climatic, cultural, social and environmental factors that constitute the natural heritage of the site.
The main objectives are the following:
On the scale of the site, to create a pole of attractiveness and to ensure the exchange by rethinking the urban connections; to diversify the means of displacement by privileging the soft mobilities by allying protection comfort and pleasure; to think of an approach responsible as much economically as socially; to create an exemplary project in term of sustainable development, as well on the environmental level as by its possibility has to create environments of great quality for the users and the occupants; to compose a rich and varied project has the image of the district and of its inhabitants
On the scale of the building, favour an implantation that limits its footprint and densifies the programmatic functions; favour an east/west orientation so as to control solar gains as much as possible, and value the human scale.
The library is intended to be the core of a social and cultural mutation of the neighborhood, which in a logic of structuring the latter, also contributes to defining territories, both of the everyday and of the imaginary.
Its architecture wants to be a sign that, in the heart of everyday life, announces something different. A visible gesture, concrete, which invites to the meeting, and also helps to enter in another reality; an event in the everyday life, as an escape, because it is well also what proposes the book and the new media.
(From competitor's text)
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This project is very elegant and minimalist, proposing a compact solution that highlights both the woodland and the library; the quality of the urban design reinforces its presence on the civic axis of Thimens Boulevard.
(From jury report)
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