Offener Wettbewerb | 09/2017
Reinventing our rivers / Revons nos rivières
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Parc des quatre rivières
2. Preis
Preisgeld: 60.000 CAD
Architektur, Landschaftsarchitektur
Erläuterungstext
PARC DES QUATRE RIVIÈRES
NATIONAL URBAN PARK OF QUEBEC
A National Urban Park is a collection of naturally, culturally, and agriculturally important landscapes. All can be found within the Capital National Watershed and even more so in the City of Quebec!
Our proposal works at multiple scales to deliver a guide for transitioning the Capital National Watershed into a National Urban Park. This guide outlines a series of large and small scale measures which can be employed during the process of making Quebec a Water-City.
Canada has a rich history of developing national parks, protecting land for public understanding, appreciation and enjoyment, and maintaining iconic landscapes for the unborn generations. The Parc des Quatre Rivières can be used as a new bio-physical border within and around the city which can influence the city to grow towards its rivers, and blur the lines between the natural and the urban.
The park is based on the philosophy of Every Man’s Right, and is realized through four strategies: Lines, Patches, Points, and Plugs.
The four strategies and the over-arching umbrella of the National Urban Park work both in the short-term and long-term with varying levels of interventions, and have different natures physically. They are the layers which overlap to create a symbiotic approach to revive, transform, engage, and activate the public to the diversity of the riparian landscapes in the region.
The advantages that can be gained from maintaining a national urban park include:
ecological health, sustainability, contact with nature, education, public engagement, respect and partnerships, diversity, local heritage, and a common understanding of urban ecology.
Quebec’s rivers are its life veins!
However, today they are the forgotten souls of the city. Quebec has one of the strongest Identities out of any city in Canada. Its rivers deserve the same! The rivers will be the highlights of the city. The basins collect diversity, are explored, cared for and become integral to the environmental and socially resilient future of Quebec. All of the rivers have unique identities and opportunities waiting to be re-discovered and shared with the world.
Float down the Cultural Cap Rouge. Celebrate along the Saint Charles. Get productive on the Beauport. Tame Montmorency the Wild.
Enjoy the Water City & Parc des Quatre Rivières!
NATIONAL URBAN PARK OF QUEBEC
A National Urban Park is a collection of naturally, culturally, and agriculturally important landscapes. All can be found within the Capital National Watershed and even more so in the City of Quebec!
Our proposal works at multiple scales to deliver a guide for transitioning the Capital National Watershed into a National Urban Park. This guide outlines a series of large and small scale measures which can be employed during the process of making Quebec a Water-City.
Canada has a rich history of developing national parks, protecting land for public understanding, appreciation and enjoyment, and maintaining iconic landscapes for the unborn generations. The Parc des Quatre Rivières can be used as a new bio-physical border within and around the city which can influence the city to grow towards its rivers, and blur the lines between the natural and the urban.
The park is based on the philosophy of Every Man’s Right, and is realized through four strategies: Lines, Patches, Points, and Plugs.
The four strategies and the over-arching umbrella of the National Urban Park work both in the short-term and long-term with varying levels of interventions, and have different natures physically. They are the layers which overlap to create a symbiotic approach to revive, transform, engage, and activate the public to the diversity of the riparian landscapes in the region.
The advantages that can be gained from maintaining a national urban park include:
ecological health, sustainability, contact with nature, education, public engagement, respect and partnerships, diversity, local heritage, and a common understanding of urban ecology.
Quebec’s rivers are its life veins!
However, today they are the forgotten souls of the city. Quebec has one of the strongest Identities out of any city in Canada. Its rivers deserve the same! The rivers will be the highlights of the city. The basins collect diversity, are explored, cared for and become integral to the environmental and socially resilient future of Quebec. All of the rivers have unique identities and opportunities waiting to be re-discovered and shared with the world.
Float down the Cultural Cap Rouge. Celebrate along the Saint Charles. Get productive on the Beauport. Tame Montmorency the Wild.
Enjoy the Water City & Parc des Quatre Rivières!
Beurteilung durch das Preisgericht
This proposal was evocatively titled Parc des quatre rivières, National Urban Park of Québec. The jury loved the idea of a national urban park. They found it bold and innovative. The intentions were clear and the proposed methods convincing. The overall theme and its multiple applications highlight the right of residents to enjoy the rivers in different ways, with the addition of many new park features to help bridge the divide between urban and natural environments and encourage residents to truly reconnect with the rivers.
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