New article in Sustainability about architectural education strategies in sustainable buildings in Canada

Jean-Pierre Chupin, Morteza Hazbei and Karl-Antoine Pelchat wrote an article about architectural education strategies (AES) in sustainable buildings. Their research led them to conclude that there are three strategies for architectural education in buildings designed to disseminate knowledge in the field of sustainable architecture in Canada; the labeling approach, the experiential approach, and the iconic method. Architects are convinced that architectural communication forms can be used as a language accessible to non-experts. Future research may therefore challenge the very possibility of teaching through formal language and aesthetic features.

If you are interested in learning more, this publication is available for free on the Open Access Publications page of the CRC-ACME website.

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An international student competition launched by IDEAS-BE (Concordia University) and CRC-ACME (UdeM)

How can design accelerate the transition from the end of the pandemic to a new experience of public transportation?

This design competition is part of a joint research initiative. The Concordia University Chair of Integrated Design, Ecology, and Sustainability for the Built Environment and the Canada Research Chair in Architecture, Competitions, Mediations of Excellence at Université de Montréal are working together to mobilize the creativity of young designers of the built environment in order to stimulate debate on the renewed experiences of public transportation for increased urban resiliency. This 2021 edition is done in collaboration CRE-Montreal and ARTM. The Conseil régional de l’environnement de Montréal (CRE-Montreal) promotes sustainable development for the City of Montreal. The Autorité régionale de transport métropolitain (ARTM) is the transportation authority, which plans, funds, and promotes public transit and paratransit services for the Montréal metropolitan area.

 

This ideas competition seeks to gather:

  1. Narratives of renewed experience of public transportation;
  2. Design idea(s) for encouraging the use of public transportation;
  3. Series of design principles for implementing a renewed experience of public transportation.

 

Program:

February 1, 2021: Competition Launch online + Registration Opens
March 1, 2021: Registration Closes
April 12, 2021: Competition Submission Deadline at 5:00PM EST
May 17, 2021: Event for the Announcement of the Winners.

 

For more information : www.ideas-be.ca/project/competition-reimagining-public-transport

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Lucie Palombi, PhD student, discusses the “City Dreamers” documentary with Phyllis Lambert and Joseph Hillel

For this 3rd online edition of Docu-conferences, the Université de Montréal Alumni and Donors Network is proud to welcome director Joseph Hillel, a graduate of the Faculty of Continuing Education, as well as two special guests: architect emeritus Phyllis Lambert and doctoral student Lucie Palombi, from the Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Planning.
The documentary Rêveuses de villes takes us to the heart of our urban environments in perpetual metamorphosis to meet four exceptional architects, exemplary women, pioneers who – for decades – have been working, observing and shaping the city of today and tomorrow.
When: Thursday, March 25, 202, from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Where: Online activity, via Zoom.
Course of the evening:
5:30 p.m. | Welcome and opening remarks before the screening
5:35 p.m. | Screening of the documentary Dreamers of Cities
18 h 55 | Intermission
6:58 p.m. | Exchange and discussion with invited speakers
19 h 25 | Public question period (30 min)
19 h 55 | Thanks and closing remarks
20 h 00 | End of the event
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Architecture in the primary school environment. Three seminars on new elementary schools in Quebec.

On the themes of the classroom, the gathering space and the relationship to the context, 3 videos from the CRC-ACME put into debate teams from the 5 competitions organized by LabÉcole for new elementary schools in Quebec. Produced by the Canada Research Chair in Architecture, Competitions and Mediations of Excellence, this set of 3 videos presents excerpts from 3 roundtables recorded in January and February 2021 with design teams of the projects submitted to the 5 competitions organized by Lab-École. These winning projects, finalists or submitted in the first phase of the competitions for the sites of Saguenay, Shefford, Maskinongé, Rimouski and Gatineau in 2020 were presented in the exhibition Devoirs d’architecture at the Centre de design de l’UQAM from September 2020 to February 2021. The pandemic did not allow the general public to discover these 160 projects for new elementary school in Quebec. These debates allow us to take the measure of the richness of the proposals.

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ABOUT THE CLASSROOM

The round table on the theme of The Classroom and Collaborative Spaces presents different physical and spatial devices imagined by Quebec architects to rethink spaces dedicated to teaching and learning.

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  • Panelists

    Étienne Bernier, Christian Bisson, Jean-Pierre Chupin, Andréanne Dumont, Jérôme Duval, Bechara Helal, Sergio Morales, Alexandra Paré, Hubert Pelletier, Nathaniel Proulx Joannisse

  • Special thanks to

    Bechara Helal

  • Organization

    Jean-Pierre Chupin et Alexandra Paré

  • Video editing

    Julien Bouthillier

  • The organizers thank the three main partners of the exhibition

    Lab-École, Centre de design de l’UQAM, Laboratoire d’étude de l’architecture potentielle

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ABOUT THE GATHERING SPACE

The round table on the theme of The Gathering Space presents a few variations and the dilemmas faced by the design teams become evident. Between spaces dedicated to very specific activities and “all-purpose spaces”, architects must harmonize proposals. The versatility of spatial devices has its qualities, but it can quickly demonstrate its limitations.

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  • Panelists

    Randy Cohen, Katarina Cernacek, Jean-Pierre Chupin, Virginie LaSalle, Marie-Hélène Nollet, Alexandra Paré, Charles Laurence Proulx, Geneviève Riopel

  • Special thanks to

    Virginie LaSalle

  • Organization

    Jean-Pierre Chupin et Alexandra Paré

  • Video editing

    Julien Bouthillier

  • The organizers thank the three main partners of the exhibition

    Lab-École, Centre de design de l’UQAM, Laboratoire d’étude de l’architecture potentielle

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ABOUT THE SCHOOL AND ITS CONTEXT

The roundtable on the theme of The School and its Context shows that a standard cannot satisfy the complexity and richness of a given site, and even more so that architectural programs need to be always adapted to their context.

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  • Panelists

    Philippe Ashby, Martin Brière, Jean-Pierre Chupin, Thomas-Bernard Kenniff, Guillaume Marcoux, Catherine Milanese, Lucie Paquet, Jessy Paquet-Methot, Alexandra Paré

  • Special thanks to

    Thomas-Bernard Kenniff

  • Organization

    Jean-Pierre Chupin et Alexandra Paré

  • Video editing

    Julien Bouthillier

  • The organizers thank the three main partners of the exhibition

    Lab-École, Centre de design de l’UQAM, Laboratoire d’étude de l’architecture potentielle

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Lucie Palombi, doctoral student in architecture, writes a post on the relationship between architects and literature

Why write fiction when you are an architect? If the role of professionals in architecture is not, a priori, to write stories, some of them have a privileged relationship with literature. This is the case of Sergio Morales, a Quebec architect (co-founder of Chevalier Morales Architectes, a studio based in Montreal) and Pierre Blondel, a Belgian architect (founder of Pierre Blondel Architectes, a studio based in Ixelles). We went to meet them in order to better understand the place that writing occupies in their practice as designers.

 

If you wish to access this scientific post, it is available free of charge on the dedicated page of the CRC-ACME website, as well as a little further down on the home page.

 

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Aurélien Catros, PhD student at CRC-ACME, publishes an article on reconstructive game models

Aurélien Catros and Maxime Leblanc jointly wrote a paper on reconstructive game models. Their research was based on a comparison between the video game Assassin’s Creed III and a 1775 map of Boston, with the goal of determining how closely historical cities are reproduced in video games. The pair are both doctoral students in Architecture. Their research will have highlighted the fact that a feeling of verisimilitude is achieved not through complete accuracy but through specific combinations of sufficiently accurate historic elements. Aurélien Catros is studying at the Université de Montréal, while Maxime Leblanc is studying at McGill University. If you wish to access this publication, it is available free of charge on the CRC-ACME website’s open access publications page.

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The CCC and AREA teams finally reunited in person after months of teleworking

Students working on the Catalog of Canadian Competitions (CCC) and the Research Atlas on Exemplarity in Architecture and the Built Environment (AREA) work again in the laboratories of CRC-ACME.

On the picture, from left to right: Jean-Pierre Chupin, Lucas Ouellet, Justine Valois, Charles Cauchon, Anna Zakahrova, Marc-Antoine Fournier, Andy Nguyen, Joëlle Tétreault.

Picture: Aurélien Catros.

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