자연과 어우러진 식물원의 입구 파빌리온[Montreal Botanical Garden Entrance Pavilion] - Pelletier De Fontenay

2024. 7. 16. 17:35ARCHITECTURE/PAVILION & INSTALLATION

몬트리올 식물원의 새로운 입구 파빌리온: 자연과 건축의 조화

몬트리올의 Pelletier de Fontenay 스튜디오는 새로운 식물원 입구 파빌리온을 선보였습니다. 이는 몬트리올 곤충관의 변신과 파크 메종느브 입구의 변화를 함께하는 프로젝트로, 이 상징적인 장소에 현대적이고 재설계된 접근 허브를 제공합니다. 새로운 파빌리온은 방문객을 맞이하고, 티켓 판매를 돕고, 식물원과 곤충관에 대한 정보를 제공합니다. 또한 별도의 체크인 키오스크도 포함되어 있습니다.

설계와 비전
이 프로젝트는 몬트리올 시의 도시 공원 부서의 조경 건축가 팀과 Lemay 사와 협력하여 개발되었습니다. 목표는 메종느브 파크의 세계와 새로 완성된 곤충관의 전면을 연결하는 것입니다. 주요 과제는 방문객들이 곤충관과 식물원으로 쉽게 안내될 수 있도록 하면서도, 이 장소의 문화유산을 존중하는 것이었습니다.

역사적 영감과 현대적 해석
Pelletier de Fontenay 팀은 공원과 정원 파빌리온의 오랜 역사를 연구하면서, 현대적 이슈와 공명하는 여러 아이디어를 전달하는 '폐허' 개념에 주목했습니다. 18세기와 19세기 영국 정원에서 반복되는 주제인 '자연에 의해 자란 폐허'의 이미지는 자연의 우월성, 불완전한 것, 숭고함, 그리고 잃어버린 자연 세계에 대한 향수를 주장하는 낭만주의와 깊은 관련이 있습니다. 

건축과 자연의 하이브리드
몬트리올 식물원의 입구 파빌리온은 마치 식물에 의해 침범된 낭만적 폐허처럼, 건축과 자연이 만나는 하이브리드 형태를 취하고 있습니다. 파빌리온 규모로 축소된 이 건물은, 그 기저에 심어진 덩굴 식물들로 완전히 덮이게 되면 곤충, 새, 작은 동물들을 환영하는 인프라가 됩니다. 파크 메종느브와 곤충관 모두에서 볼 수 있는 이 새로운 리셉션 파빌리온은 접근 경로의 굴곡점에 전략적으로 위치해 있습니다. 삼각형의 평면 설계는 풍경 속 초점을 만들고, 교통 흐름을 관리합니다. 

환경과의 조화
큰 지붕은 실내에서 실외로 이어지는 연속성을 지지합니다. 봄부터 가을 중반까지 파빌리온의 큰 슬라이딩 도어는 열려 있어 내부와 외부의 경계를 없앨 수 있습니다. 이 건물이 풍경에 개방될 수 있는 능력은 프로젝트의 핵심입니다. 방문객들은 바람과 열을 느끼고, 새소리를 듣고, 인근 숲의 향기를 맡으며 방문 계획을 세우고, 디지털 터미널에서 티켓을 얻거나 카운터에서 정보를 얻을 수 있습니다. 

건축적 표현
이 파빌리온은 확장된 코르텐 강철로 만들어졌으며, 내부의 수직 면만 매끄럽게 처리되었습니다. 이 프로젝트는 건축을 단순한 기술적 표현으로 보는 것이 아니라, 단일 소재의 피부로 모든 표면을 균일하게 덮어 더 단일적이고 신비로운 표현을 추구합니다. 시간이 지나면서 산화되고 덩굴 식물들이 점차 구조를 덮게 되면, 파빌리온의 모습은 점차 폐허와 같은 모습으로 변모하며 자연과의 공생 관계를 형성하게 됩니다.

이 프로젝트는 과거와 현재, 건축과 자연, 기능성과 미학을 하나로 묶어 현대적이고 지속 가능한 방문객 경험을 제공합니다.

더보기

 Montreal-based studio, Pelletier de Fontenay, presents the new Botanical Garden's Entrance Pavilion. In conjunction with the metamorphosis of the Montreal Insectarium and the transformation of the entrance to Parc Maisonneuve, this project offers a redesigned and modernized access hub for this emblematic site. The new pavilion welcomes visitors, facilitates ticket sales, and provides information on the Botanical Garden and Insectarium. It also includes a smaller, separate check-in kiosk. Developed in collaboration with a team of landscape architects from the City of Montreal's Urban Parks Division, and the firm Lemay, the vision serves to link the world of Maisonneuve Park to the front court of the newly completed Insectarium. The project's main challenge was to better orient and guide visitors towards the Insectarium and Botanical Garden while respecting the cultural heritage of the site.

In studying the long history of park and garden pavilions, Pelletier de Fontenay's team focused on the notion of the ruin as a bearer for several ideas that resonate with modern-day issues. A recurring theme in 18th and 19th-century English gardens, the image of the overgrown ruin is deeply rooted in the romantic movement, which asserts the superiority of untamed nature, the imperfect, the sublime, and the overall nostalgia of a lost natural world. Architectural structures, once colonized by vegetation and other forms of life, propose a symbiosis between the built and the living world, a productive relationship in which architecture becomes a literal support for life.

Much like a romantic ruin invaded by plants, the Montreal Botanical Garden's Entrance Pavilion stands as a hybrid figure where architecture and nature meet. Humbled to its pavilion scale, the building, once fully covered by vines planted at its base, will become an infrastructure welcoming insects, birds, and small animals. Visible from both Parc Maisonneuve and the Insectarium, the new reception pavilion is strategically positioned at the inflection point of the approach route. Its triangular plan is designed both to create a focal point in the landscape and to manage the flow of traffic: one enters on one side and exits through the other, in a natural pathway towards the entrance to the Botanical Gardens and the Insectarium. At the base of the volume, the triangle's corners form the pillars which support a wide, square-shaped roof. The interaction of the two geometries produces generous roof overhangs, offering protection from sun and weather. The entrance and exit areas become sheltered meeting points or places to queue up during busy hours.

The large roof, which extends from interior to exterior, supports the notion of landscape continuity. As soon as spring temperatures permit, and until mid-autumn, the pavilion's large sliding doors can remain open, eliminating the boundaries between inside and out. The ability of the building to open wide to the landscape is fundamental to Pelletier de Fontenay's approach to this project. Visitors can feel the wind and heat, hear the birds, and smell the nearby forest while they plan their visit, obtain tickets at the digital terminals, or get information at the counter. From a bioclimatic standpoint, being in tune with the weather also means that for a good part of the year, there is no need for heating or air conditioning. The assembly and superimposition of two simple shapes - the triangle and the square - confer a primitive quality on the overall structure. Far from emphasizing its construction, the pavilion's tectonics are completely sublimated in favor of a single-material skin that covers all surfaces homogeneously.


This skin is made entirely of expanded Corten steel, except for the vertical interior faces, where the steel is left smooth. The project goes against the idea of architecture as assemblage, as a mere technical expression. Instead, constructive articulations make way for a more monolithic, enigmatic, archaic representation. Conceptually, visitors might well get the impression that the structure pre-dates the garden that now surrounds it. The use of Corten steel supports the idea of a structure worn and weathered with time. The expanded structure of the sheets provides an ideal support surface for vining plants, and the size of the openings is calibrated to allow them to navigate on either side of the skin, entering the architectural cavity in some places only to emerge higher up. As the Corten steel cladding gradually oxidizes and the structure is colonized by climbing plants, the pavilion's appearance will evolve, evoking a ruin gradually overtaken by nature, and thereby entering a symbiotic relationship with it.


Montreal Botanical Garden Entrance Pavilion Balcony HouseM

MONTREAL, CANADA

Architects :  Pelletier De Fontenay
Year : 2022
Photographs :   James Brittain


 

 

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