Centre Communautaire Jean-Claude Malépart

I was the design architect for this community center in Montréal, which received a Prix d’excellence from the Ordre des Architectes du Québec in 1996. The principal challenge of the design was to resolve the conflicting demands of the city’s desire to develop certain major streets using a generic typological model and the specific conditions of actual building sites. In this case, any solution that met the city’s urbanistic demands would cut off a large inner block park from a major thoroughfare.