Claude Cormier presentation

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CLAUDE CORMIER


WHAT IS HE ALL ABOUT?


quebec farm

martha schwartz

agronomy

impressionist art landscape architecture

history & theory of design


experience is not defined in or of intention... we’re challenging perception


FAKE versus ARTIFICIAL


a lot of places are trying to be natural, but they’re not ... it’s all fake, it’s all manmade


CORMIER METHOD


we define a design narrative as a story ... get, define, build, one idea


p l a yfulne s s


bringing universal quality into a place... humour is playful, it’s optimism


modern vision

An Afternoon at la Bathing at Asnières The Seine at la Grande Jatte Grande Jatte Seurat, 1884-1886

Seurat, 1884

Seurat, 1887


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sequential

layered engaging


destination

ambience spatial


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escape

industrial sensitive


challenging

optimistic whimsical


colour


I don’t like the kind of wishy washy colour... I like “the real colour”


blue

camouflage



decomposition

blue barometer

reflect natural process



luminosity

natural preconceptions

artificiality



nature

associative

makers of landscape


blue shock


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perception

refresh normative approach

spatial quality


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artificiality

defamiliarization feature attention


pink shock


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futuristic environment

joie de vivre cosmetic industry


futuristic environment

joie de vivre cosmetic industry


orange shock


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revitalization

joyful + vibrant unexpected colour


permanence


we’re trying to do work that is specific to a place... address a local geography


context historical


silk

site

history

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= forest

silk flowers x 16,000


tapestry

spactial perception

fairy-tale


s tatu e o f k i n g e dw a rd houndstooth

p a v i n g


identity

event space visual focus


Notre Dame Basilica

Marc-Aurele-Fortin Museum Centre d’histoire de MontrÊal

Gare Maritime Iberville Museum of Archeology and History

Place Royale

1997-2008


historical reflection

quilt linkages


1999-2002


intersection

meeting point vegetation mounds


ecology

linked systems


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green corridors

connected


At the end, the style doesn’t matter, it’s how you bring in drainage, water management, and green corridors.


overall site ecology

well drained site connected to city and green infrastructure


the romantic side

people connected to community and ecology


the concept of nature is romantic and once you start tweaking it you can become a little bit more subversive with it.


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stormwater drainage

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green corridors

connected


overall site ecology

well drained site connected to city and green infrastructure


the romantic side

a modern picturesque a rolling meadow under a a canopy of poplars


At the end, the style doesn’t matter, it’s how you bring in drainage, water management, and green corridors.


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green corridors

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green corridors

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green corridors


We could have done it more progressively with regards to nature but there were too many people and we couldn’t do it per se.


overall site ecology

restoring original ecology site connected to city and green infrastructure


systems that are all linked together ... style doesn’t matter


I like THE REAL COLOUR

spatial quality


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