Responding to the constraints of a narrow and elongated site, the project reinvents the landscape of a cleared lot by drawing its strength from the context and the diversified program of the new municipal library. Structured by a strategy of landscape strips which cross the site, the project incorporates circulation routes, gathering places, and catchment infrastructures to create a building-landscape. The building is composed of linear volumes with complementary vocations:
• A lively and active wing which responds to community programming and leans towards the street and the school.
• A calmer and more introspective wing which houses the traditional library.
• An interstitial service space that unfolds at the back of a natural agora, and in connection with the landscaped setting.
The creation of a designed interior street reveals a new main facade, whose entrance leads directly to the heart of the project: a lively hall provides access to all primary spaces.
Comprised of a wooden structure, facings, and coverings, the building asserts itself as a legitimate carbon sensor, while integrating itself into the natural wooded setting of the lower Laurentians.
