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
1 6 3 5
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2
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