The project aims to integrate the university campus with the surrounding urban components that define the site: Durocher Street and Parc Avenue to the east, Rockland Boulevard to the west, the railway as a territorial backbone, and Beaumont Street to the north. Situated between the industrial waterfront edge to the north and residential blocks, the campus buildings align with the logic of the railway, creating a central public space that acts as a link between Parc-Extension and Outremont via Acadie Boulevard.
A public square, continuous with the Acadie metro exit, extends beneath the railway, transformed at this point into a station, toward the landscaped open space at the heart of the campus. These new public spaces continue the sequence of existing public places that form the core of the Outremont neighborhood to the south. Grounded in these urban components, the project generates both focal spaces through the integration of an east-west axis, where block ends (along Bates Road) reinforce the logic of the residential and public fabric, and interstitial, transitional spaces connecting the Acadie and Outremont metro stations, as well as the north and south. The project’s center is shaped by urban landscapes made possible through a central plaza from which “railway belvederes” emerge visual openings that draw surrounding urban elements into the heart of the campus.