Shlack!
The current approach to heritage is unsustainable, it doesn't work. Thoughtless conservation is killing the city; the corpse is varnished. The streets of Quebec City are deserted by its inhabitants and the permanent population is anemic. The district is nothing more than decoration, it's a fake! It's time to get down to business.
In 2011, we decide to act. We will not be satisfied with a frozen city, we will not live in formaldehyde, we want nothing to do with DisneyLand Quebec. No more fixation in time, no more urban botox, we will live the city we love.
Revisit the relationship to heritage. No varnish, no accumulation of layers: we want to mix the layers of time, to mix them: to mix the eras. Live the heritage.
Québec 2100: the first fortified campus in North America. Université Laval returns to the cradle of its creation. 40,000 students invade the city. The streets come to life, the old capital vibrates, Quebec City is resurrected. Since the departure of Laval University to Ste-Foy in the early 1960s, the vital signs were fading. The best electroshock to revive it: the return of Laval University to its walls.
The design campus occupies all the buildings of the Seminary. A common floor linking all the buildings was added. The contemporary stratum is inserted into the old. The stratum is a place of exchange, pooling and sharing of resources.
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- Presentation Panel
- Presentation Panel
- Perspective
- Perspective
- Perspective
- Axonometric Drawing
- Axonometric Drawing
- Axonometric Drawing
