Building a cultural center is an opportunity to materialize in one place the spirit of a community, to give it a space of gathering and connectivity. Our proposal is based on this vision of exchange and sharing, and relies on the creation of various supports that encourage interaction, exchange and discovery. The new center must certainly promote connectivity with its environment, but above all the appropriation of the place by its community. This inexorably requires meticulous work on the space, the careful division of circulation, the links to the site, and on the various mechanisms to be put in place so that users discover, experiment, and appropriate their cultural center. The cohabitation of a music school, a dance school, community premises, an aquatic center, a broadcasting place and a toy library illustrates very well the richness of the place to be built.
An anchor to the territory and to the collective identity
The project is anchored to the collective identity of Lévis, articulating our urban, landscape and architectural reflections. The city of Lévis is dynamic, booming, the heart of financial cooperation, and the main center of activity on the South Shore. A road, rail and maritime crossroads, Lévis has developed around meetings, collaboration and exchange. It was here that people crossed the river, where social and economic ties were forged. Lévis developed around meetings, collaboration and exchange. Its territory is diversified, the northern portion dedicated to exchanges, trade and links with Quebec City, the southern portion, on its plateau, occupied by farms and forests. Its proud population takes note of the richness of its territory, its valleys, its views of the river and Quebec City, its maritime front, and its built heritage. It is in this notion of pride and community that our proposal for the new cultural center of Lévis fits, of dynamic community, of cohabitation and openness to people, to diversity and to the outside world.
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- The conviviality of this proposal was greatly appreciated by the jury. The fluid circulation generated at the interface of the 4 functional islands would certainly contribute to promote interactions between users and thus create a real meeting place within the complex.
- The proposal offers a relatively flexible planning allowing several adjustments without altering the essence of the concept.
- The technical committee's cost estimate for this project is, however, of concern and several adjustments would certainly be required in order to respect the budget envelope.
- The integration and qualification brought to the site are obvious.
- Because of the volume and materiality of the proposal, this project would undoubtedly benefit from a high degree of public acceptability.
- Despite the fact that the positioning of the new toy library is coherent with the immediate environment, i.e. the amusement park, the proposal gives an important place to this function while it is not a priority element of the project. Consequently, a lot of money and energy would have to be spent on this pavilion, which was not part of the PFT budget. These investments would only be partially offset by the recovery of the current toy library to house the performance room.
- Little information was provided regarding the acoustic intervention strategies adopted.
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