Le Vieux-Port de Québec - Louise Basin
A detailed design of specific residential buildings is rejected for a amster planning of the site in terms of a typology of architectural forms, public spaces and historical/contextual reference.
The architectural parti springs from the idea of enclosure of the site by an urban wall juxtaposed with the ambition to reconstitute the site as a harbour edge of piers and slips.
This proposal argues far the Louise Basin as a discrete defined precinct contributing to and extending the understanding of Quebec City.
Major Elements: Buildings
As both public space and building, the Market becomes the field against which the scenario of its program will figure. The architectonics of stall, store, hall and pavilion develop as pier and ship in the reconstitution at the harbour edge.
The pool, athletes' stair, gymnasium and parterre are dispersed as figural pieces within the context of the station plaza and adjacent landscaped park.
Within the typology of residential forms the Court Building, like the Market, reconstitutes the idea of the Harbour Quay. The scale of the building takes its clue from the adjacent tower Town while establishing the components of wall and public gate.
Encouraged by the context of the Court Building and specifics of the site, the Gate Building is diagnosed at a pavilion controlling the lower Basin.
The Slab and Tower serve to complete the development of the project referring its completion to the larger context of the City as wall, roof, object.
The residential component of the proposal refers to the possibility of phase development. As a base, a medium density of 107 units per hectare is proposed across the site.
(From competitor's text)
Recalls the module of the city.
Desire to control the entire development with one single action.
Good segregation of the different traffics around the basin.
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