Infrastructural PLAY

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Infrastructural PLAY

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Transport + Infrastructure › Train/Subway

Change the perception and enhance the role of the rail corridor, Intensify / develop an interdependency among architecture, the infrastructure and the context, Various types and densities of public programs contributing to the neighborhoods, Material play / mutual performance of materials and usersA large elevated rail corridor is currently slicing thru the north-east neighborhoods of the island of Montréal. This continuous strip of land has the potential to generate social, spatial and programmatic emergences. The main idea is to change the perception and enhance the role of the rail infrastructure. The project aims to alternatively put into effect the scheme proposed by the Agence Métropolitaine de Transport de Montréal by adding various public facilities to the proposal. The site isn’t an impediment anymore, but an urban collector and distributor. The proposal isn’t a conventional point to point rail line, but a perpetual hub engaging spatially and programmatically the existing fabric. A meaningful and useful density of public programs, such as free sport facilities (i.e. tennis courts, basketball field and public pools), is needed to sustain the evolution of the nearby neighborhoods. The project intends to contribute to its vicinities and to the city as a whole by its programs and its functional linkages. The project takes ground along existing main streets, thus connecting key places to enrich and redefine commuting experience within the city. Relationships between the rail corridor and the existing street network allow communities to gain accessibility toward daily navigations. The overall structure presents interdependencies between the architectural and infrastructural realms by intertwining them. The project takes advantage of the context by erecting a pedestrian promenade over the actual railroad, thus bridging the metropolis. A new infrastructure waltzes along the skyline. The project unfolds as an urban play: material and experiential processions emerge from the covered ground to become an aerial experience. Panoramic views over city offer different orientations to users and show the city as a whole. A different way to commute is offered to the citizen by incorporating participation and observation through various densities of reflective materials. A users’ experience is materially treated in order to expand the manifestations of architecture. The project is materialized as a result of encounters from the industrial and airy atmosphere of the surroundings. It is conceived as an airy promenade, unfolding a sequence of programs and views. The architecture of the everyday journey becomes enlivened and eased throughout the projected continuous hub. Buildings stowed within the pedestrian bridge act as pillars, punctuating and consolidating the connection of the bridge to the ground. The architectural expression of the mixed-use stations portray the progression from a substantial structure holding the rail line to a light weight composition of cables and reflective materials such as glass and metal, acting as a spatial and experiential opener. The glass and metal tectonicity of the project put into play an effervescent combination of interior and exterior spaces actively engaged by city dwellers.

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Infrastructural PLAY

Infrastructural PLAY

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