The CCNQ is organizing an international ideas competition with the aim of imagining the deployment of the full potential of the Littoral Est project: reappropriation and enhancement of the St. Lawrence River shoreline in Quebec City - Phase 4, extending over 8 km between the D'Estimauville sector and Parc de la Chute Montmorency. The CCNQ's public development projects, including the three phases of the Promenade Samuel-De Champlain, bear witness to the public's great appreciation for the excellence of its land-use planning and the development of the Capitale-Nationale region. The Littoral Est project thus represents a unique opportunity to extend this appreciation to a new urban development project combining four main areas of intervention:
A. Coastal enhancement and accessibility
B. Connecting neighboring districts to the river
C. (Re)questioning the transit axis in its current layout
D. Conservation and enhancement of natural environments
This international ideas competition is intended as an investment in creativity, and aims to select, through the comparison of innovative proposals, the winning concepts from multi-disciplinary teams that will have been put together for the competition. The aim is to highlight the development potential of the area in question, generate stimulating ideas and concepts, and influence the strategies and decisions of the stakeholders called upon to implement them. At the same time, it aims to put current issues into perspective and speculate on future ones. The proposals will lead to an update of the overall vision, as well as for each of the sectors, by integrating the worrying challenges raised and highlighted in the competition. They will enable the Quebec government to implement the best ideas and identify the conditions for successful future development. The competition is open, multidisciplinary, international in scope and held in a single phase. It is open to landscape architects, urban designers, architects, urban planners and other environmental design professionals likely to propose ideas that are both ambitious and realistic, and that will guide the transformation and conservation of the territory, and the reappropriation of riverbanks and the areas that border them, whether natural or urbanized.
(From competition program)
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The criteria used by the jury in its deliberations and decisions were the same as those set out in the competition rules:
- Relevance: Sensitivity, appropriateness and intelligence of the conceptual approach suggested by the proposal, both in its broad outlines and in its details.
- Creativity: Ambitious, imaginative and unexpected character of the concepts developed, on macro, meso and micro scales.
- Programming: Degree of exploration of the area's development potential for the benefit of a wide public, offering a diversity of inclusive, desirable and sustainable uses, in all seasons and under various conditions.
- Identity: Respect for the area's rich heritage and participation in strengthening its distinctive features.
- Mobility: Reconciling the seemingly contradictory objectives of ensuring fluid, safe vehicular traffic along the shoreline and increasing permeability between built-up areas and the river.
- Environment: Contribution to the conservation, enhancement and resilience of natural environments, in the short, medium and long term.
- Yield: Value of the benefits obtained in proportion to the disruption and investment required, from both a citizen and a governmental point of view.
- Professionalism: Skills in composition, spatialization and representation of the qualities (urban, landscape, architectural and social, in particular) demonstrated by the proposal.
(From jury report)
(Consult the competitors' projects for specific comments from the jury)
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