Le Vieux-Port de Québec: Bassin Louise
Quebec City's preoccupation with the automobile is radically altering its jewel-like, historic centre. As entire quarters are being buried under concrete expressway interchanges, the suburban perception that a road is a means of moving people and goods from where they are to where they want to get, has obscured the timeless image of the street as a place for people who are already where they want to be. This historic vision of the street is crucial to our submission which proposes a system for the rational redevelopment of the Bassin Louise, based on a number of historical precedents.
The city is a kind of large house...
The fundamental problem posed by this competition is how to order small scaled, fragmentary growth in such a way that it not only addresses local market conditions but reconstructs and expands the collective public life of Quebec City's old towns as well. In much the same way that this competition requires that a 5 m promenade encircling the basin govern all submissions, this scheme proposes 6 fundamental types of habitat to govern the redevelopment of the Bassin Louise as follows: the Street, the Square, the Colonnade, the Arcade, the Public Garden, the Boulevard and the Monument.
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