The Coffee Park pavilion is located at the heart of the Côte‑des‑Neiges | Notre‑Dame‑de‑Grâce borough, at the intersection of De Maisonneuve Boulevard and Broadway Avenue, slightly set back from the park’s main circulation routes. It appears as a discreet, welcoming contemporary pavilion, evoking a single‑storey house that is legible and reassuring, scaled to the families and children who use the site.

The architectural concept is based on a simple, almost archetypal volume: a small, pitched‑roof chalet finely shaped by its envelope. A pleated metal roof and light brick façades are treated as a continuous skin folding down to shelter the interior spaces, creating protective porches and overhangs at the entrances. This unified treatment strengthens the reading of a compact, robust object, while the play of light and shadow on the folded surfaces varies throughout the day and the warm wood accents soften the ensemble, reinforcing the convivial character of the building.

At the heart of the project, a large through-opening directly links the mineral forecourt on the splash‑pad side to the grassy slopes of the park. This covered passage acts at once as a hall, a shelter and a belvedere onto outdoor activity. With glazed accordion doors at each end, the passage allows the pavilion to open generously in the summer months, bringing in natural light and preserving clear sightlines throughout the day. Service spaces, including washrooms, technical rooms and storage, are arranged along this diagonal, freeing up a central zone that is simple, legible and secure for users.

The relationship to the water‑play area guided the treatment of the immediate surroundings, where warm‑toned coloured concrete surfaces extend the pavilion floor toward the play structures, forming a broad continuous carpet where children can move freely. Low concrete walls integrated into the landscape serve in turn as benches, informal seating tiers and protective edges, structuring movement without constraining it, while the presence of mature trees provides shade and coolness, giving the project the atmosphere of an inhabited clearing.

Through its compact form, the choice of durable, low‑maintenance materials and the maximization of natural light, the pavilion puts forward a restrained, enduring architecture. By day and into the evening, it acts as a gentle lantern within the park – a clear point of reference for families and a discreet support for daily neighborhood life – asserting a contemporary presence while sitting modestly within the landscape of Côte‑des‑Neiges | Notre‑Dame‑de‑Grâce.