MTL
YUL
2011
COMMUNITY IDENTITY - Three community axes were developped around the themes of Art, Business/Community and Health. A fourth non-residential area was also developed to promote the industrial history of the sector around the Turcot Interchange
PRINCIPAL BUILT AXES The location of main axes were built around the Transit Oriented Development principle. Each has a rapid transit bus stop with access to down town at its center within a 5 minute walk of the development perimiter
Construction of Lachine Canal, lake disapears
Natural state
New train and road implanted over river
Train Road Water feature Highway Escarpment
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TURCOT LANDMARK HEALTH DISTRICT
The area around the Turcot Interchange will be turned into a park featuring pillars saved from the old highway in commemoration of Montreal’s industrial past.
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The addition of Highway A20 and placement of river underground
Rainwater from Saint Raymond is collected using a system of modified swales. Water from the street and sidewalks is funnelled into the swale system where it is treated by vegetation and a portion infiltrates. The remaining water then is captured by a concrete channel which gently winds through the swale system and then down the Saint-Jacques Escarpment where it is captured in a larger natural treatment system along the base of the escarpment.
NDG STREET WATER SYSTEM
GREEN AND BLUE LINKS - A network of vegetation and water links were created throughout the territiory with the goal of reconnecting the land to the water and of using these public spaces to forge new link- between the communities to the north and south
CONCEPT
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
INTERLACE VALLEY will show how Turcot can become, not just a more pleasant place to drive through, but also a unique community with the potential to forge important links with the surrounding neighbourhoods
TOPOGRAPHY
Driving from YUL to MTL, the Turcot Yards are the last frontier before rising onto elevated structures for the final approach to the city. Today, the Turcot experience is one of abandoned space, crumbling infrastructure and declining industry. However, behind this bleak picture lies awesome potential.
REGIONAL CONTEXT
TURCOT INTERLACED
INTERLACE VALLEY
WORKSHOP_ATELIER/TERRAIN UNESCO MONTRÉAL (QUÉBEC) - CANADA
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ARTIST DISTRICT PROPOSAL INTERLACE VALLEY proposes to sink the highway and rail infrastructures into a trench along their proposed alignment, which will be periodically covered by vegetation, water and building features. This intervention will free up space to make invaluable links across the territory, disenclave existing populations in Saint Raymond and Ville Émard as well as offer interesting opportunities to the potential residents of the Turcot Yards without the disadvantages of living next to large infrastructures. Water will be a permanent fixture in the new development, as the topographic features near the Lachine Canal will be taken advantage of to funnel water into a system of ponds and streams.
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The proposed built environment in the Turcot Yards would be based on three axes and take the form of a transit oriented development. It would be served by a rapid bus system offering frequent service to downtown along Notre Dame Blvd., which would be equipped with a designated bus lane. Each of the three axes would feature a residential development but would also have a unique identity based around different urban experiences projected by function as well as architectural multifunctional built urban environments.
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Several interventions are also planned for the neighbourhoods immediately north and south of the Turcot Yards. On the south side, industry will be consolidated around Angrignon Blvd., and Angrignon itself will be shifted west in order to improve traffic circulation. North of Turcot, the commercial area on Saint-Jacques Blvd. will also be consolidated towards the center of the district. Old commercial and industrial areas will then become open for residential development and the additional population and greatly improved walking and biking network will encourage local vitality. As for highway users, they will have a unique experience marked by different natural and architectural features combined with occasional covered sections before rising out of the trench for their first views of Montreal from the Turcot interchange. With these natural and urban interventions connecting and reconnecting the territory, the Turcot Yards could have real potential to become extraordinary.
BUILT ENVIRONMENT
ROAD AND PATH NETWORK
GREEN AND BLUE FINGERS
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Forest area Parcs Water feature
Train rail Bicycle and pedestrian path Street Pedestrian bridge/place Highway
New structuring building Patrimonial/important building to keep Key building
Blain CATHERINE, UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL, Canada Poggiani VALERIA, SAPIENZA UNIVERSITA DI ROMA, Italy Fujimaki TAIKI, KOBE DESIGN UNIVERSITY, Japan Spector ANDREA, UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL, Canada