Espace pour la vie - Volet B : Biodôme renouvelé / Space for Life - Project B: Biodôme Renewal
2014
Montréal, Quebec, Canada- Architecture for culture, research, sport or leisure
- Building
- exhibition and research centre
Biodôme Renewal
In making the visits more immersive, introspective and emotive, in offering other perspectives on the ecosystems, the Renewed Biodôme project will focus on experiences that awaken all the senses.
This project covers the interior of the Biodôme, from the ecosystems to the public spaces.
A renewed commitment:
The Renewed Biodôme project proposes to revive the thinking on our link with nature and to stimulate behavioural changes in order to preserve biodiversity.
The Biodôme will therefore be redesigned in such a way as to raise awareness of the efforts taken to reconstitute nature and show how it is ingenious, indispensable and impossible to replace.
Greater emphasis will be put on human beings in both the presentations and speech. For example, the researches to which the Biodôme collaborates will be featured.
More immersion and more living things:
New habitats will bring more plants and animals in order to make the visit even more challenging, contemplative and informative. The body, hearing, smell, touch and sight will be sought by the addition of new elements such as snow and rain.
The ecosystems will be modified, some in depth. For example, we can imagine a polar world offering more proximity with the animals and where the visitors can actually feel the harsh climate.
In the transition zones between the current ecosystems, imagination and technology will both be used to create other landscapes: deserts, underworlds, mountains, caverns...
New perspectives
The project involves the addition of infrastructure to get closer to the arch building. The course will hence be enriched with new perspectives allowing the discovery of life in the sky and underground.
(From competition brief)
In making the visits more immersive, introspective and emotive, in offering other perspectives on the ecosystems, the Renewed Biodôme project will focus on experiences that awaken all the senses.
This project covers the interior of the Biodôme, from the ecosystems to the public spaces.
A renewed commitment:
The Renewed Biodôme project proposes to revive the thinking on our link with nature and to stimulate behavioural changes in order to preserve biodiversity.
The Biodôme will therefore be redesigned in such a way as to raise awareness of the efforts taken to reconstitute nature and show how it is ingenious, indispensable and impossible to replace.
Greater emphasis will be put on human beings in both the presentations and speech. For example, the researches to which the Biodôme collaborates will be featured.
More immersion and more living things:
New habitats will bring more plants and animals in order to make the visit even more challenging, contemplative and informative. The body, hearing, smell, touch and sight will be sought by the addition of new elements such as snow and rain.
The ecosystems will be modified, some in depth. For example, we can imagine a polar world offering more proximity with the animals and where the visitors can actually feel the harsh climate.
In the transition zones between the current ecosystems, imagination and technology will both be used to create other landscapes: deserts, underworlds, mountains, caverns...
New perspectives
The project involves the addition of infrastructure to get closer to the arch building. The course will hence be enriched with new perspectives allowing the discovery of life in the sky and underground.
(From competition brief)