Dirigible Pavilion
This short-listed competition entry for the design of a Canadian Pavilion for the Venice Biennale was exhibited at the 1996 architecture Biennale. This project required hybrid analog/digital techniques to conceive and represent a form that was unachievable at that time with the digital tools available to the authors. [More...]
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. [More...]
Chemical Engineering and Material Sciences building, McGill University
I was one of the design architects for this laboratory building (the first new building on the McGill campus for twenty years). Among the principle architectural problems was the need to mediate between the programmatic demands of a contemporary laboratory building and the constraints of a designated architectural heritage zone. [More...]
Cardiff Bay Opera House Competition
This competition entry was an exploration into 3D modeling operations available in first-generation digital modeling tools. The major spaces in the project inhabited the resulting voids. The building was conceived as a solid mass whose boundaries and location were determined by siting considerations. The interior spaces were developed as a series of solids whose dimensions and shape were determined by programmatic considerations and which were differenced from the building mass using software tools. [More...]
Pavillon président Kennedy, Université du Québec à Montréal
I was one of the design architects for this science complex in downtown Montreal. [More...]
Centre du théâtre d’aujourdhui
With Saucier + Perrotte architectes, Montréal. I was one of the design architects on this project to adapt a series of graystone rowhouses to accomodate a black-box theater for an established theatrical company. It received Canadian Architect Magazine Award of Excellence 1993. [More...]
Centre d’interprétation du Bourg de Pabos
This project proposed an archaeological park in the far eastern shore of Québec organized around paradigmatic themes that link the landscape and the fragments of an 18th century French settlement.
Some friends of mine won this competition with a nice project, which you can see here. [More...]
Musée Regional de Rimouski
With Saucier + Perrotte architectes. Proposal for the conversion of Eastern Québec’s oldest stone church into the Musée Regional de Rimouski. [More...]
Three gardens on the Lachine Canal
Second prize, ARQ magazine competition, 1990. Three gardens in the form of excavations provide rest areas and drinking water for the users of the bicycle path in the present day public park on the Lachine Canal in Montréal. [More...]
A Tour of the Monuments of the Lachine Canal
Original statement: Faced with the task of developing a plan for the re-use of industrial sites, urban planners need not resort to behavioral, social or economic determinacy; instead, form itself can suggest program and architectural representation can be a planning tool. This project tested the capacity of highly abstract formal orders to suggest forms of inhabitation. [More...]
Theatre of the Metropolis
An old project from the 80s, but in a way I still like it. Performance and installation, built and performed in the Globe Warehouse, Waterloo, Ontario, April 10-11 1987.