SYMPHONY FOR A RIVER
A remarkable landscape dissected by a freeway and framed by buildings that turn their backs on it. The territory in question is an assemblage of monophonies. Their notes, loose and unarranged, waste the immense opportunity that this place represents. Our proposal is simply to bring these notes together in a way that makes sense. So that they can resonate together. So that they become music. So that they become a symphony for a river.
We interpret the territory as a score:
The Lines
Sometimes parallel, sometimes discontinuous, cross the site from north to south. They are Blvd. de Sainte-Anne, Blvd. Saint Laurent, Dufferin-Montmorency Avenue, which is no longer a highway, and the river strip. Between the existing and our vision for the future, there is a fundamental change: we are giving back to humans the principal role in the use of the riverbanks. In a conciliatory yet realistic way, we're not proposing to eliminate the flow of vehicles, but to reorient them. This reorientation involves adopting only two lanes for each direction; reducing the speed limit to 40 km/h; replacing the ramps, which give the car the power to change direction at full speed, with returns and accesses consistent with the new limit; and setting up crossings not only below the road, but also at the same level and above, depending on the landscape interest of each location.
In Between Lines
The block of houses, previously oriented solely towards Blvd de Sainte-Anne, will lean towards the new axis, Boulevard Saint Laurent: a place for the prosaic, for daily commuting, underscored by the densification and diversity of uses that will enliven the riverbanks.
One step closer to the river, between Blvd Saint Laurent and the avenue, we propose a strip dotted with furniture and equipment to support a variety of activities: playgrounds, open-air gymnasiums, amphitheatres, pavilions for markets and ephemeral uses, cafés, florists, toilets, greenhouses, vegetable gardens, among many others. We call this strip or interlining Energy.
Parallel to the avenue, the tramway runs from Pôle D'Estimauville to Parc de la Chute Montmorency and back via Boulevard de Sainte-Anne, serving the large-scale daily flows previously provided only by the freeway. Crossing the avenue Dufferin Montmorency, in one of the proposed crossings, we arrive at the Contemplation strip, where gazebos and lawns are spread out, conforming temporalities different from those we have already traversed. Contact with the waterway is enhanced by the installation of floating squares, houseboats, restaurant boats, quays and moorings in sections where the strip of land is narrower.
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