Our team envisions this Pavilion as an object raised from the ground, a platform in the trees, from which it will be possible to admire the Botanical Garden, Rosemont, the stadium..., located nearby.
The overall idea behind our proposal is to put the Space for Life at the heart of an even larger project that would encompass the grounds of the Botanical Garden as well as Maisonneuve Park. In a spirit of sharing the planet, plants and animals of all kinds, insects and humans, young and old, all would now rub shoulders in an immense green space crisscrossed by pedestrian paths and bicycle lanes, protected from cars.
The concept of a festive building, "culminating point" of the emblematic greenhouses of the Botanical Garden, devolves a major symbolic role to this structure that we envisage raised from the ground to get closer to the trees.
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