Espace pour la vie - Volet C : Pavillon de verre au Jardin botanique / Space for Life - Project C: The Glass Pavilion at the Botanical Garden
2014
Montréal, Quebec, Canada- Architecture for culture, research, sport or leisure
- Building
- exhibition and research centre
Glass Pavilion at the Botanical Garden
The Glass Pavilion at the Botanical Garden project invites its visitors to extend their visit within a bold, innovative and organic architecture in accordance to the biophilic design principles. Inspired by the greenhouses of the Botanical Garden, the exhibition building recalls the will to conceive new forms allowing for richer and more varied aesthetics.
The project will be implemented on a ground of about 1 000 m² in surface, located on the east of the Biodiversity Centre at the Botanical Garden.
The Glass Pavilion, with a multipurpose space, technologically efficient and flexible, will host, in optimal conditions, environmentally responsible, horticultural and corporate events. It will therefore answer a need in hosting in an ideal space international horticultural exhibits (orchids, bonsai, etc.). It will also serve as a significant space to host public or private events for up to 350 people for banquets, offering a terrace linked to the landscapes of the gardens.
This flexible space will offer all services and equipments necessary to holding various activities.
The outdoor space will be considered as an extension of the indoor space where the quality of the landscaping, in harmony with the rose garden, will make it a remarkable place.
Implanted on the sequence and axis of the exhibition greenhouses at the Botanical Garden, next to the public space of the Biodiversity Centre, the Glass Pavilion will become one of the culminating points of all of the exhibition greenhouses of the Botanical Garden.
This implantation favours its visibility and accessibility from the parking lot of the Botanical Garden, from the walk to the rose garden and from all the complex of greenhouses open to visitors.
The City minimally requires the LEED Platinum certification, but the «Living Building Challenge» certification is also aimed for. These are certifications that represent the highest quality standards for green buildings in order to have the Glass Pavilion be a building that benefits from the best energy-efficient technologies.
(From competition brief)
The Glass Pavilion at the Botanical Garden project invites its visitors to extend their visit within a bold, innovative and organic architecture in accordance to the biophilic design principles. Inspired by the greenhouses of the Botanical Garden, the exhibition building recalls the will to conceive new forms allowing for richer and more varied aesthetics.
The project will be implemented on a ground of about 1 000 m² in surface, located on the east of the Biodiversity Centre at the Botanical Garden.
The Glass Pavilion, with a multipurpose space, technologically efficient and flexible, will host, in optimal conditions, environmentally responsible, horticultural and corporate events. It will therefore answer a need in hosting in an ideal space international horticultural exhibits (orchids, bonsai, etc.). It will also serve as a significant space to host public or private events for up to 350 people for banquets, offering a terrace linked to the landscapes of the gardens.
This flexible space will offer all services and equipments necessary to holding various activities.
The outdoor space will be considered as an extension of the indoor space where the quality of the landscaping, in harmony with the rose garden, will make it a remarkable place.
Implanted on the sequence and axis of the exhibition greenhouses at the Botanical Garden, next to the public space of the Biodiversity Centre, the Glass Pavilion will become one of the culminating points of all of the exhibition greenhouses of the Botanical Garden.
This implantation favours its visibility and accessibility from the parking lot of the Botanical Garden, from the walk to the rose garden and from all the complex of greenhouses open to visitors.
The City minimally requires the LEED Platinum certification, but the «Living Building Challenge» certification is also aimed for. These are certifications that represent the highest quality standards for green buildings in order to have the Glass Pavilion be a building that benefits from the best energy-efficient technologies.
(From competition brief)