蒙特利尔步行街Agora Maximus装置

Agora Maximus是一座充满创意的步行街项目，设计师创建了具有高耐用性、大容量的模块化种植池装置，Agora Maximus是一个创新的步行区项目，通过提出高度耐用、集成和大量种植的模块化装置，并结合了灵感来自蒙特利尔拉丁区的标志性签名，打破了战略化城市主义的边界。

Agora Maximus is an innovative pedestrianization project that pushes the boundaries of tactical urbanism by proposing highly durable, integrated, and heavily planted modular installation, combined with an instantly iconic signature inspired by Montreal’s Quartier Latin.

为实现这个充满野心的项目，设计团队创造了一个沉浸式并且充满活力的临时街景装置，确立了拉丁区作为城市法国机构的创始地的遗产身份，并展示了其充满活力的节日文化和生活乐趣。利用这种独特的身份，概念和故事情节旨在以其明确的“拉丁”特征，俏皮地投射神话般的圣丹尼斯街的身份。

To achieve this ambitious agenda, the design team’s approach proposes an immersive and vibrant temporary streetscape installation, confirming the Quartier Latin’s legacy as the founding place of the city’s French institutions, as well as showcasing its vibrant festive culture and joie de vivre. Drawing on this singular identity, the concept and storyline aim to playfully project the identity of mythical Saint-Denis Street, with its resolutely "Latin" character.

因此，Agora Maximus代表了一种包容性的城市形式，也是圣丹尼斯街（2022-2024）的街道步行化的象征，在夏季节日期间，观景台和观赏点可以欣赏动画般的街景和引人入胜的现场艺术。项目结合了拉丁文化的两个标志性符号：集市，市民聚集场所，以及马戏竞技场，一个线性圆形剧场，用于现场娱乐。装置通过将城市空间转变为线性舞台来向节日、马戏团和实验艺术致敬，并沿街每隔一段路程设有引人注目的像素块弹出式座位。

As such, the Agora Maximus is an inclusive urban form that celebrates the seasonal pedestrianization of St-Denis Street (2022-2024) with viewing platforms and vantage points to take in the animated streetscape and its offerings of living arts during the summer festivals. Immersive and intriguing, it combines two landmarks of Latin culture: the Agora, a place for civic meetings, and the Circus Maximus, a linear amphitheater for live entertainment. In this way, the concept pays homage to festivals, circuses, and experimental arts by transforming the urban space into a linear stage, with striking pixelated pop-up seating arrangements placed at intervals along the street.

▽像素块弹出式座位

模块化的观景平台目前主要分布在历史悠久的圣叙尔皮斯图书馆前，未来将在2023年和2024年沿着整条街道，为行人提供无障碍开放空间，以便人们在此社交或欣赏风景。阶梯式的轮廓令人想起拉丁区文化机构的主楼梯。带有一种非正式性和俏皮感，装置采用五颜六色的“像素”堆的形式，其中填满了绿色植物，提高了圣丹尼斯街的绿化率。像素的使用灰色融入环境，使用白色来唤起现代感，使用橙色向道路施工视觉代码进行了有趣的致敬。

Mainly located in front of the historic St-Sulpice Library in 2022, then along the whole street in 2023 and 2024, the modular platforms offer accessible open spaces for pedestrians to socialize and take in the scenery. Their stepped profile evokes the main staircases of the cultural institutions of the Quartier Latin. Informal and playful, they take the form of colorful mounds of "pixels" filled with greenery, enhancing the tree coverage of St-Denis Street. The pixels' colorful swatches use GREY to integrate into heritage surroundings, WHITE to evoke modernity, and ORANGE to deliver a playful nod to roadwork visual codes.

各个站台由这些连续的街头艺术装置连接，这些装置由横穿整个街道的像素图案组成，为行人提供了不断变化的视觉旅程。沿街商户的视觉图形装饰方案，为步行于迈松纽夫街道和舍布鲁克街道之间的行人提供了沉浸式漫步和城市体验。

The various platforms are linked by a continuous street-art graphic intervention made of pixel patterns along the whole length of the street, providing an ever-changing visual journey for pedestrians. A paired strategy of visual/graphic dressing of key commercial windows along the street enhances the immersive stroll and urban experience between de Maisonneuve and Sherbrooke streets.

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Technical sheet

Project Name: Agora Maximus

Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Client: SDC Quartier Latin and the Partenariat du Quartier des spectacles de Montréal

Architects/Designers: LAAB Collective in collaboration with Signature design communication

Design team: Michel Lauzon, Vincent Clarizio, Maëva Lonni, Frédérick Gagliolo, Adam Ghadi-Delgado, Margot Greenbaum.

Project type: Urban design, Tactical urbanism, Temporary & Events installations, Industrial design, Street furniture

Technical description: An assembly of pixels of 5 different heights in painted steel and wood. The pixels can be used as platforms, seats or planters.

Challenges: A modular system, easy to assemble, install, dismantle for summer use over 3 seasons. 

Installation: summer 2022 (2023 and 2024)

Photographer: Raphaël Thibodeau