Our strategy is to reimagine historic buildings, blended together with new, purpose-built art-spaces and public realm as one "open house" for the Phi Foundation.
Working as an indivisible whole, buildings will appear welcoming, convivial and inspiring for attracting highly-diverse audiences. They will be robust and unselfconscious in character for creative production and well- prepared as a public building to meet the challenges post-COVID and our collective responsibility to COP26
Five key principles define the urban, architectural, spatial, material and sustainability proposals:
• Trusting what is already there: the urban cluster will become a carefully calibrated "bricolage" of old and new, where all the existing heritage is retained and weighed in equal balance with the contemporary additions. We will keep all existing heritage on site, with the exception of the timber shopfront, which will enable...
• ...the creation of a new entrance "yard" on Bonsecours Street - a generous civic gesture to welcome as many people as possible to encounter an experience of art at the Phi Contemporary.
• A stepped volumetric approach to new building forms topped by a further series of external yards, which will flex and negotiate the forms of the surrounding heritage townscape. The crowning yard is a lightweight rooftop belvedere structure, facing outwards to the city of Montreal signalling the civic purpose of the Phi Contemporary.
• Porosity and permissiveness: physical and visual links between people and art and an experience of architecture itself will be made at an urban scale. Spatial sequences and rooms will be imbued with a strong atmosphere of their construction (new and old).
• A commitment to layered ecology at all levels of the site will bring a focus on biodiversity and wellbeing for building users and create enhanced visual amenity for neighbours.
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