Here, there is a desire to preserve and enhance the built heritage, as well as to highlight the organizational typology of the Montreal blocks in order to promote the proper insertion of the national archives into the surrounding urban fabric. The main building (the former HEC) will be renovated and the Jodoin House will undergo an essential internal transformation. The whole project is articulated around a major element, the interior street, a new dynamic in the life of the building. Along this major circulation axis, visitors will be able to cross the archives building and circulate from the main entrance on Viger Street (HEC) to De La Gauchetière Street, thus accessing all authorized functions and participating in the life of the building. As a major space in the project, it gives the building an identity in keeping with its original spirit. For its part, the exhibition space adopts a democratic position. That is to say that by positioning itself in the central space, it opens up to the interior street in order to better communicate its civic pretensions. This project tends to express a contemporary status in complementarity with the existing architecture. Its glass wall is a crystal, a transparency that affirms its belonging to our time, although its volumes will be built of stone to harmonize with the materials already present. The entrance to the groups and the opening of the interior street compose a contemporary signal by their materials and technical prowess.
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