A gesture of urbanity, landscape and boldness!
For us, building a new library is an important gesture towards our community, a gesture of openness, exchange, culture and urbanity. Building a library also means creating a place to belong to a community, a place of appropriation, where users can come face-to-face with the richness of our world and themselves. Here, our intervention ranges from the city to the book, carried by the act of building. An act of landscape, an act of architecture, an act of literature and an act of urbanity, the library redefines and transgresses its role. This everyday place in Lachine becomes a place of discovery and communication, a place of interaction, bringing together landscape and architecture. Our thinking is based on the user's perception of the library as a place where they can project themselves and interact with themselves and others.
The new library is also a place of openness and exchange. To achieve this, the new library must be a place for a wide range of activities, both individual and collective, where everyone, whatever their background, can get to know themselves and each other. As such, the new building must offer a variety of atmospheres, spaces and times for discovery. It must offer places to meet and exchange ideas. The architecture of such a library is therefore part of a process that encourages interaction and, above all, a sense of belonging.
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Jury comments:
Although the architectural language is strong, the volumetry of the elevation on 32nd Street clearly demonstrates the difficulty of joining the three (3) entities, which are treated separately: the parking lot, the existing building and the extension.
This scheme does not contribute to urban requalification, with an inconspicuous entrance from the intersection and parking lot. The ribbon concept is detrimental to natural lighting, and the skylights provide unobstructed illumination, except for the parking lot.
The volume above the parking lot has little interior spatial interest.
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