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Landscape Pavilion in St-Roch-des-Aulnaies
Visitor Centre at one with the Landscape in Quebec, Canada – design by Anne Carrier architecture
29 Mar 2018
Landscape Pavilion in Quebec
Design: Anne Carrier architecture
Location: St-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Quebec, Canada
Landscape Pavilion, St-Roch-des-Aulnaies

The concept for the siting and construction of the new visitor centre for Seigneurie-des-Aulnaies, a registered Quebec cultural heritage site, is grounded in the characteristic elements of the surrounding landscape: the river, bridges, forest and stone buildings.

The architects opted for a Land Art approach, focusing on natural settings and materials. The aim was to make the new building as discreet as possible and showcase the site?s most interesting landscape and heritage features.
The resulting pavilion takes advantage of the site?s slope: the building ?melts? into it, minimizing its visual impact on the site and allowing for universal accessibility. Stone is the project?s dominant source of inspiration. It is found on the site in every form: as a retaining wall, piled on the riverbank, and hewn for use on the mill?s exterior.

This natural raw material appears in the new pavilion as a gabion wall. Meanwhile, the building?s green roof suggests an exposed stratum of the underlying ground and emphasizes the idea of landscape-focused architecture by blurring all refer...