【獎項 Prizes】　優選 Distinction

【國家或地區 Country/Region】　加拿大 Canada

【公司／團隊 Company/Group】　NÓS Architectes

【設計師姓名 Designer】　Charles Laurence Proulx,Gil Hardy,Negar Adibpour,Jean-benoit Trudelle,

【作品介紹 Description】

Moving Dunes Since 2012, every year from June to October, the Avenue du Musée in downtown Montreal, adjoining the Museum of Fine Arts of Montreal (Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal ; MBAM) is pedestrianized and transformed into an urban public art piece. The MBAM uses an annual design competition as an opportunity to choose among local designers to recreate its outdoor extended space. “Moving Dunes” is the 2018 winning proposal, the realization of which has been achieved in May 2018. Moving Dunes dialogues with the museum’s summer theme, “From Africa to the Americas: Picasso face-to-face past and present”, to offer an unconventional public place. In order to complement the ambiance of the indoor exhibition, and augment the visitor experience, we drew inspiration from the indigenous arts and the visual approach of cubist painters. Originally, the expression “primitive art” was used to identify foreign art, the art of the lunatics, and the art of children. These categorizations highlight the strong level of expressiveness put forward by this type of art and the possible diversity of meaning they can generate through the interpretative process of the observer. Cubists played with both of these attributes to draw question on the use of classical perspective in pictorial representation, a dominant visual tool since the Renaissance. Thus inspired, as a critique of contemporary clichés that are far too often frozen and generic, we imagined an anamorphosis on the ground, changing in accordance to the position of the visitor in the landscape. This trompe-l’œil created with a primitive motif of parallel lines, “moves” the visitors of the Avenue du Musée in a geometrical landscape, intangible yet disruptive. This mirage of rolling sand dunes is materialized with a selection of warm colors reflecting the aridity and heterogeneity of the Saharan desert and a set of four chrome spheres intensifying the oasis feel of the landscape while reflecting major works of architecture and the museum “Sculpture Garden” surrounding the site. The hand-painted graphics on the ground vibrate under the alternation of fawn shades. The mirroring spheres are arranged to provide sufficient relief to activate the movement of the painted patterns on the ground while being safe for pedestrians. Through their wandering on the dunes, the passersby discover the presence of the reflective mounds that amplify the effect of the distorted ground underneath, and deform the built surroundings. The public space is filled and animated with deformed bodies, blurring known markers and thus destabilizing the walker. Creating the Avenue du Musée topography was the main challenge of the project, as municipal laws prohibit the implementation of volumes on public roads. Regardless, we were able to carry out the project according to its original intentions: the quality of the proposal and the refinement of execution plans seduced the competition organizers. At the time of writing, four shimmering balls give the impression to emerge from the ground, reaching a height of 900 mm.