Les Jardins de Métis Concours d'idée : Paysage et architecture / Métis Gardens Ideas Competition: Landscape and Architecture
1999
Grand-Métis, Quebec, Canada- Garden structures
- Garden
- Exhibition hall
"The Jardins de Métis is currently working on the preparation of a multi-phase development project that anticipates, among others, the implementation, as of the year 2000, of an international contemporary garden art festival - a unique forum of innovation in landscape architecture."
(From call for candidates, July 1999)
In 1999, an architectural and landscape architectural ideas competition was launched by the Jardins de Métis. Following a public Call for Candidates, three teams of designers were selected from a total of approximately twenty candidates and were invited to participate in a seven-day on-site workshop. This competition was aimed at the global planning of the garden and festival site, as well as the design and production of the site's visitor welcome and service installations.
By means of this contest, a contemporary landscaped garden of the 21st century, equally inspired by the physical and historical characteristics of the Métis site, was to be created. As specified within the programme, the issue was to, "contribute, by the creation of a veritable Park/Landscape, to attributing a strong, coherent, original and significantly rich landscaping identity to the entire site. This new identity should be perceptible from the entrance to the site by the design of its approach, access and the visitor reception zone. It should also contribute in various manners to the overall experience of the visitor." The basic premises also stipulated the necessity for teams to work with a general unifying concept enabling the transmission of images to future visitors.
(From call for candidates, July 1999)
In 1999, an architectural and landscape architectural ideas competition was launched by the Jardins de Métis. Following a public Call for Candidates, three teams of designers were selected from a total of approximately twenty candidates and were invited to participate in a seven-day on-site workshop. This competition was aimed at the global planning of the garden and festival site, as well as the design and production of the site's visitor welcome and service installations.
By means of this contest, a contemporary landscaped garden of the 21st century, equally inspired by the physical and historical characteristics of the Métis site, was to be created. As specified within the programme, the issue was to, "contribute, by the creation of a veritable Park/Landscape, to attributing a strong, coherent, original and significantly rich landscaping identity to the entire site. This new identity should be perceptible from the entrance to the site by the design of its approach, access and the visitor reception zone. It should also contribute in various manners to the overall experience of the visitor." The basic premises also stipulated the necessity for teams to work with a general unifying concept enabling the transmission of images to future visitors.