Solar Powered Bus Shelter + Interactive & Educational / Abribus à énergie solaire + Interactif et éducatif
2016
Montréal, Quebec, Canada- Architecture for culture, research, sport or leisure
- Urban spaces
- Shelter
The Project:
The project consists of designing the shelter(s) at the Loyola campus of Concordia University, which will also include solar energy. The participants may or may not use the existing structure. Teams will develop ideas that can both educate and encourage public conversation that might heighten awareness around climate change issues. The proposal should be well documented technically and intended for further development.
Objectives:
This first installation is intended to be built on Concordia's Loyola campus. It will represent the first of a series of interventions that will be planned over the next few years, bringing public space interventions along the entire axis of Sherbrooke Street across Montreal. In this inaugural experimentation, we are partnering with Concordia's NSERC Smart Net-zero Energy Buildings Strategic Research Network. Submissions are encouraged to consider the use of solar power - this may be centrally featured in the design, or simply a means to power the project without reliance on the grid. Technical assistance to realize this will be available to the team with the winning design. In addition to the build-out of the winning project - there will be an opportunity to showcase selected project submissions as part of a celebration of the CoLLaboratoire's public launch via a public and virtual exhibition of ideas in 2017 in the Canadian Competitions Catalogue.
Description of site:
The location of the design intervention is in Notre Dame de Grace (NDG), Montreal, Quebec on the Loyola Campus of Concordia University. The site is currently a large, utilitarian shuttle bus shelter found on the north side grounds of the campus. The shelter site is adjacent to Sherbrooke St. West and the Vanier Library building of Concordia University. While on the University's private grounds, the site is highly trafficked, with more than 2,300 people embarking on the shuttle bus at Loyola campus on a daily basis. The shuttle does not operate on the weekends and runs on a reduced schedule in the summer. Innovative programing for these non-peak times is encouraged. We invite participants to think creatively about the site, while any intervention should not get in the way of the site providing actual shelter from the weather for shuttle bus users. It could be so much more than just a bus shelter! It could be a refuge of a whole new sort, which may include any or none of: green walls or roofs, charging elements, heating pads, innovative roof tops, thermally modified materiality, weekend market shelters etc. What else might people seek shelter from? What else may the shelter provide?
(From competition program)
The project consists of designing the shelter(s) at the Loyola campus of Concordia University, which will also include solar energy. The participants may or may not use the existing structure. Teams will develop ideas that can both educate and encourage public conversation that might heighten awareness around climate change issues. The proposal should be well documented technically and intended for further development.
Objectives:
This first installation is intended to be built on Concordia's Loyola campus. It will represent the first of a series of interventions that will be planned over the next few years, bringing public space interventions along the entire axis of Sherbrooke Street across Montreal. In this inaugural experimentation, we are partnering with Concordia's NSERC Smart Net-zero Energy Buildings Strategic Research Network. Submissions are encouraged to consider the use of solar power - this may be centrally featured in the design, or simply a means to power the project without reliance on the grid. Technical assistance to realize this will be available to the team with the winning design. In addition to the build-out of the winning project - there will be an opportunity to showcase selected project submissions as part of a celebration of the CoLLaboratoire's public launch via a public and virtual exhibition of ideas in 2017 in the Canadian Competitions Catalogue.
Description of site:
The location of the design intervention is in Notre Dame de Grace (NDG), Montreal, Quebec on the Loyola Campus of Concordia University. The site is currently a large, utilitarian shuttle bus shelter found on the north side grounds of the campus. The shelter site is adjacent to Sherbrooke St. West and the Vanier Library building of Concordia University. While on the University's private grounds, the site is highly trafficked, with more than 2,300 people embarking on the shuttle bus at Loyola campus on a daily basis. The shuttle does not operate on the weekends and runs on a reduced schedule in the summer. Innovative programing for these non-peak times is encouraged. We invite participants to think creatively about the site, while any intervention should not get in the way of the site providing actual shelter from the weather for shuttle bus users. It could be so much more than just a bus shelter! It could be a refuge of a whole new sort, which may include any or none of: green walls or roofs, charging elements, heating pads, innovative roof tops, thermally modified materiality, weekend market shelters etc. What else might people seek shelter from? What else may the shelter provide?
(From competition program)