Agora Maximus, Tactical Urbanism Project / LAAB Collective + Signature Design Communication

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Agora Maximus是一个创新型行人项目，建筑师提升了高度耐用力、集成力，应用高度种植模块化装置，结合来源于蒙特利尔Quartier Latin的标记灵感，不断地推进了城市化的发展。

Text description provided by the architects. Agora Maximus is an innovative pedestrianization project that pushes the boundaries of tactical urbanism by proposing highly durable, integrated, and heavily planted modular installation, combined with an instantly iconic signature inspired by Montreal’s Quartier Latin.









设计团队为了实现这一雄心壮志，他们构思了一种沉浸式且充满活力的临时街道景观装置方案，表达了Quartier Latin的遗产是城市法国机构的创始地这一理念，同时展示了生机勃勃的节日文化，设计概念以独特的理念为基础，其目标是通过“Latin”特性，表达神秘的Saint-Denis街道氛围。

To achieve this ambitious agenda, the design team’s approach proposes an immersive and vibrant temporary streetscape installation, confirming the Quartier Latin’s legacy as the founding place of the city’s French institutions, as well as showcasing its vibrant festive culture and joie de vivre. Drawing on this singular identity, the concept and storyline aim to playfully project the identity of mythical Saint-Denis Street, with its resolutely "Latin" character.







Agora Maximus也因此构成了一种包容性城市的形式，该项目庆祝了St-Denis街道(2022-2024)的季节性步行特征，同时设置了观景平台，在夏季节日期间充分利用街道景观和生活艺术气息，其中结合了拉丁文化的两个标志性特征，首先是大众聚会场所Agora，以及现场娱乐的圆形剧场Circus Maximus，建筑师通过这种方式将城市空间改造为线性舞台，并且结合戏剧等艺术形式，同时还设置了弹出座椅。

As such, the Agora Maximus is an inclusive urban form that celebrates the seasonal pedestrianization of St-Denis Street (2022-2024) with viewing platforms and vantage points to take in the animated streetscape and its offerings of living arts during the summer festivals. Immersive and intriguing, it combines two landmarks of Latin culture: the Agora, a place for civic meetings, and the Circus Maximus, a linear amphitheater for live entertainment. In this way, the concept pays homage to festivals, circuses, and experimental arts by transforming the urban space into a linear stage, with striking pixelated pop-up seating arrangements placed at intervals along the street.



在2022年，模块化平台主要应用于历史悠久的St-Sulpice图书馆的前侧，而在2023年和2024年，它们即将应用于整条街道，这种策略给行人带来了开放式空间，人们可以在此交流与欣赏风景。其阶梯形态的轮廓让人们联想到Quartier Latin文化机构的主要楼梯，它们随意却有趣，有着像素化的色彩形式，强调了St-Denis大街的植物氛围，而像素化色彩又通过灰色结合传统环境，白色呼唤了现代感，而橘色则表达了对于道路视觉焦点的呼应。

Mainly located in front of the historic St-Sulpice Library in 2022, then along the whole street in 2023 and 2024, the modular platforms offer accessible open spaces for pedestrians to socialize and take in the scenery. Their stepped profile evokes the main staircases of the cultural institutions of the Quartier Latin. Informal and playful, they take the form of colorful mounds of "pixels" filled with greenery, enhancing the tree coverage of St-Denis Street. The pixels' colorful swatches use GREY to integrate into heritage surroundings, WHITE to evoke modernity, and ORANGE to deliver a playful nod to roadwork visual codes.







多样化的平台通过连续的街道艺术图像连接在一起，这些图像通过沿着街道的像素画图案构成，给人们带来了连贯的视觉体验，de Maisonneuve与Sherbrooke街道之间的沿街主要商业窗口的视觉搭配策略强调了这种沉浸式的城市体验。

The various platforms are linked by a continuous street-art graphic intervention made of pixel patterns along the whole length of the street, providing an ever-changing visual journey for pedestrians. A paired strategy of visual/graphic dressing of key commercial windows along the street enhances the immersive stroll and urban experience between de Maisonneuve and Sherbrooke streets.













建筑设计：LAAB Collective, Signature Design Communication
类型：公共空间 装置/结构
时间：2022年
摄影：Raphaël Thibodeau
客户：SDC Quartier Latin, Partenariat du Quartier des spectacles de Montréal
设计团队：Michel Lauzon, Vincent Clarizio, Maëva Lonni, Frédérick Gagliolo, Adam Ghadi-Delgado, Margot Greenbaum.
建筑功能：城市设计 现代化设施 街道家具
城市：蒙特利尔
国家：加拿大

PUBLIC SPACE, INSTALLATIONS & STRUCTURES
MONTREAL, CANADA
Architects: LAAB Collective, Signature Design Communication
Year: 2022
Photographs: Raphaël Thibodeau
Client: SDC Quartier Latin, Partenariat du Quartier des spectacles de Montréal
Design Team: Michel Lauzon, Vincent Clarizio, Maëva Lonni, Frédérick Gagliolo, Adam Ghadi-Delgado, Margot Greenbaum.
Program / Use / Building Function: Urban design, Temporary & Events installations, Street furniture
City: Montreal
Country: Canada