Montcalm; prestige on a human scale. Which one? That of the landscape, which is both central to the city, a characteristic typology of the district, and a witness to the history of the City of Quebec. Unfortunately, it has been fragmented and limited for several years by a mass of high-rise apartments and by the omnipresence of the automobile, Thus, the Parc des Champs de Bataille rises up and its ramifications wander through the sector in order to requalify the orthogonal parcel, to interweave urbanity, art and culture, and to reach its northern analogue, the Ste-Geneviève hill. The junctions allow the discovery of unexploited spaces, bringing Montcalm back to life through a profusion of vegetation and art.
Artistic because the landscape leads to scenes revealing the full potential of the urban fabric. The various parking lots, cores of blocks and urban voids are occupied by installations of various scales, temporary as well as permanent, punctuating a free course, variable according to the interests. The ramifications thus allow for the enhancement of the Promenade des écrivains in addition to allowing for a continuous updating according to the trend. This artistic constellation spreads throughout the city and at its origin, its focal point. Cartier, together with the MNBAQ, creates a heart from which the art spreads to various poles in the entire neighborhood. This idea is materialized, day and night, by perforated or luminous elements that punctuate the walk through the neighborhood.
The discovery of this universe is facilitated by the development of the pedestrian. The park guides him and raises him above the city at the junction of Cartier and Grande Allée. The root network forms a new museum square that becomes a meeting place and a permeability between the park and Cartier Street. The commercial axis is metamorphosed into a pedestrian way where only cyclists can find their place. The main mineral barrier, Grande-Allée, is also narrowed to make room for bikes, pedestrians and vegetation. The porosity of the neighbourhood is maintained longitudinally by public transit and major roadways. Moderate speed traffic therefore overhangs the city in order to restore a sensitive scale to this rigid grid.
The new museum square and its roots cover the existing parking lot and bury it underground. This same root also suggests a continuous parking under the first part of Cartier Street. This principle allows for the optimization of the hollow spaces in the entire neighborhood. Currently they occupy more than 10% of the surface and do not do justice to the local identity. This new stratification allows a reaffirmation of the roots of the district, the revitalization of the wastelands and a reinforcement of the human scale in the whole of Montcalm.
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