First Nations Garden Pavilion
Open pavilion exhibits and simple benches under the undulating wood roof; The First Nations Garden (one of the gardens of the Montreal Botanical Garden) commemorates the 300th anniversary of the Great Peace, a 1701 treaty uniting French settlers and the indigenous people of Montreal. It is designed...
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ftmitdome:oai:dome.mit.edu:1721.3/166380 2023-05-15T16:15:20+02:00 First Nations Garden Pavilion First Nations Garden Interpretive Pavilion Saucier + Perrotte architectes Williams, Asselin, Ackaoui et associés Inc. Saucier + Perrotte architectes (Canadian architectural firm, founded 1988); Williams, Asselin, Ackaoui et associés Inc. (Canadian landscape architecture firm, founded ca. 1978) Site: Montréal Botanical Garden (Montréal, Québec, Canada) 2001 (creation) 2001 wood; glass; rusted steel image/jpeg http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/166380 unknown 250733 archrefid: 2968 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/166380 1A1-CP-FNGP-A19 © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only MIT architecture contemporary (1960 to present) Native North Americans Twenty-first century image 2001 ftmitdome 2022-03-15T17:55:17Z Open pavilion exhibits and simple benches under the undulating wood roof; The First Nations Garden (one of the gardens of the Montreal Botanical Garden) commemorates the 300th anniversary of the Great Peace, a 1701 treaty uniting French settlers and the indigenous people of Montreal. It is designed to help visitors discover the culture of the first inhabitants of North America. The pavilion is a museum within the garden. Sheltering less than 2% of the garden grounds (which is 10,000 sq meters total), the pavilion is mostly outdoor space. Half of the built spaces are located underground to further reduce the influence of the new building on the existing setting. The new building was sited to retain all existing trees and maintain a relatively open terrain in an attempt to integrate the building and the site. The undulating roof recalls a wisp of smoke through the trees. Outdoor displays sheltered by the roof are framed by two indoor spaces at opposite ends of the pavilion – exhibition and orientation spaces at one end, public washrooms and a meeting space at the other. Landscape architecture by Williams Asselin Ackaoui et Associates Inc. Source: ArchDaily; http://www.archdaily.com/ (accessed 5/7/2014) Still Image First Nations MIT Libraries Dome Canada |
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Open pavilion exhibits and simple benches under the undulating wood roof; The First Nations Garden (one of the gardens of the Montreal Botanical Garden) commemorates the 300th anniversary of the Great Peace, a 1701 treaty uniting French settlers and the indigenous people of Montreal. It is designed to help visitors discover the culture of the first inhabitants of North America. The pavilion is a museum within the garden. Sheltering less than 2% of the garden grounds (which is 10,000 sq meters total), the pavilion is mostly outdoor space. Half of the built spaces are located underground to further reduce the influence of the new building on the existing setting. The new building was sited to retain all existing trees and maintain a relatively open terrain in an attempt to integrate the building and the site. The undulating roof recalls a wisp of smoke through the trees. Outdoor displays sheltered by the roof are framed by two indoor spaces at opposite ends of the pavilion – exhibition and orientation spaces at one end, public washrooms and a meeting space at the other. Landscape architecture by Williams Asselin Ackaoui et Associates Inc. Source: ArchDaily; http://www.archdaily.com/ (accessed 5/7/2014) |
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Site: Montréal Botanical Garden (Montréal, Québec, Canada) 2001 (creation) |
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