McGill College: Reinventing the Avenue Competition, Montreal, Qc. Canada

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DESCRIPTION

Project submitted as part of the international multidisciplinary urban design competition. Entitled "Royal ultra nature", the proposal takes the opportunity of the avenue's renewal to create a strategic rooting that celebrates Montrealers' unique relationship with the mountain. The project concentrates the archetypal avenue into a visual and formal axis of 11.5m, perfectly aligned with the main alley of the McGill campus, freeing a generous space for the deployment of natural rooms. This approach reinforces the X (rue Sainte-Catherine), Y (McGill College axis), Z (mountain geomorphology) relationship in a judicious amalgam where the animation of the city and the poetry of nature cohabit.

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(1) Perspective view from McGill Avenue, NIPPAYSAGE

(2) Axe Fleuve /Montagne + Axe Sainte-Catherine, NIPPAYSAGE

(3) McGill/Heritage axis, NIPPAYSAGE

(4) Mountain/ Nature axis, NIPPAYSAGE

(5) Resurgence: Topography, water, plants, NIPPAYSAGE

(6) Longitudinal section, NIPPAYSAGE

(7) General plan, NIPPAYSAGE

(8) Longitudinal section, NIPPAYSAGE

(9) General plan, NIPPAYSAGE

(10) Section detail, NIPPAYSAGE

(11) Spring cut, NIPPAYSAGE

(12) Winter cut, NIPPAYSAGE

(13) Rain garden cut, NIPPAYSAGE

(14) Concept collage, NIPPAYSAGE

(15) Corner view of rue Sainte-Catherine ouest and avenue

Mcgill College Avenue towards Mount Royal, NIPPAYSAGE

(16) Stormwater management, NIPPAYSAGE

(17) Planting strategy, NIPPAYSAGE

(18) Illumination, NIPPAYSAGE

(19) Active pathways, NIPPAYSAGE

(20) Benches, NIPPAYSAGE

client

Ville de Montréal

TEAM

Michel Langevin, Mélanie Mignault, Josée Labelle, Mathieu Casavant, Catherine Blain, Elisabeth Leblanc, Marianne Lafontaine-Chicha

YEAR

2019

COLLABORATION

Atomic3

Sinisha Brdar

McGill College: Reinventing the Avenue Competition