N.O.D. (Nature-Oriented Development)
Inspired by TOD (Transit-Oriented Development), the concept aims to deploy territorial planning tools around the new NOD concept. Fauna and flora become the central element of urban development, alongside human beings. The aim is to create a human, animal and plant ecosystem within the borough. This new organic matrix redefines urbanity.
The human experience is reflected not only in the citizen's journey through sensory immersion in the animal and plant world, but also in the development of a new planning paradigm that systematically integrates flora and fauna into inhabited spaces, whether public or private.
Four components are reinterpreted:
1. Densification: enhancing the quality and quantity of natural habitats. Citizen ownership of the project by introducing habitats for flora and fauna into private areas. The project aims to encourage property owners (residential and industrial) to welcome new wildlife tenants and increase biodiversity.
2. Mixed use: diversify uses by establishing nesting, feeding, resting and production areas. To ensure harmonious cohabitation between humans and plant and wildlife species, and for the protection of more sensitive species, certain areas will remain inaccessible to humans.
3. Mobility: develop a permeable wildlife network. Establish wildlife corridors by ensuring connectivity between different ecosystems through habitat defragmentation. For citizens, establish a pedestrian route through the various ecosystems.
4. Protection: enhance natural environments and offer awareness-raising and educational activities on natural heritage and threatened and/or vulnerable species.
Citizen appropriation
As the borough's emblem, the monarch will facilitate appropriation by citizens and various public bodies. From caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly, this architectural dialogue of installations is inspired by the life cycle of the insect and milkweed plantations, becoming a signature of identity. Intervening in the citizen's garden, industrial site and civic space, habitats, modulated according to the typical habitats of different species, will punctuate the urban landscape at different scales. These installations will be accessible to residents, who will be able to integrate them into their grounds. These micro-habitats will house wildlife and encourage the planting of trees, nectar-producing plants, rain gardens, woody debris and so on, thus becoming educational elements. The industrial plain is the epicenter of an emerging sustainable economy, with planters, beehives, green roofs, a cricket factory and more. These measures will make it possible to achieve the density and mixed-use objectives set out at the heart of our planning tools.
These interventions, scattered throughout the area, will create a network of ecosystems. This network will be punctuated by biodiversity nodes.
(From competitor's text)
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This proposal is very appealing at the concept stage, with its dynamic visual presentation and contemporary urban reality. The analogy with the life cycle of the monarch butterfly is well-targeted, both aesthetically and conceptually. The underlying message is simple and easily assimilated by the general public. The chrysalis is a strong, repetitive and recognizable signature element on the territory. The object comes in a range of sizes, emphasizing its potential for appropriation on both public and private property. The human experience of the site is clearly asserted. Consideration of the industrial territory is also appreciated. The main principles set out are systemic, and the jury sees the potential for the proposal to evolve well if these are well integrated.
The jury members noted, however, that the proposal remains highly constructed and architectural, and would benefit from being naturalized. Although the work down to the scale of the object is appreciated, the jury expressed a fear that these interventions would become too punctual and incidental. It also points to the issue of sustainability, in relation to the materiality of the proposed devices. The jury would like to gain a better understanding of the vision and strategy at the scale of the territory and the wider landscape, in order to ensure that these interventions are properly placed within the scope of the master plan. Ecological connectivity should, in this sense, be given greater emphasis in the proposed concept. It was noted that a legend could have made it easier to understand certain elements of the master plan.
The jury points out that the concept has little to do with a real Laurentian identity, beyond the monarch butterfly, which is a very literal response, although appreciated. Finally, it was brought to the team's attention that the proposed observation tower in Marcel-Laurin Park could not be sited within the boundaries of the protected natural environment.
(From jury report)
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