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Symbolic Public Form & the Library Art Gallery of Ontario
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PASSAGE ST. PIERRE | PROVENCHER ROY ET ASSOCIES ARCHITECTES Montréal, Canada Located at a major subway node in Old Montreal, the Passage St-Pierre serves as a modern gateway into the historic city. Conceived in glass and steel, the project lightly bridges between two existing classical buildings as to not disturb their presence while hinting at the dynamic infrastructures below. The project also connects sectionally, between the various transport and retail networks below grade to the pedestrian networks at grade. As a renovation to the existing atrium, the geometries of the project begin with the existing glass façade and rupture these to reveal the flowing movement at the transfer node. At the same time, the fragmented forms aid in wayfinding and directing flows. At this instable intersection between historic planimetric bridging (old and new) and sectional speeds of movement (subway and pedestrian) social norms are reinvented and a new public sphere emerges. |
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