蒙特利尔Îlot Balmoral办公大楼

公司：	Provencher_Roy	类型：	建筑
地区：	加拿大	标签：	办公空间

Îlot Balmoral是一座由蒙特利尔居住企业（SHDM）委托建造的13层高的综合办公楼，见证了蒙特利尔创意经济的崛起。这座令人印象深刻的建筑是蒙特利尔市中心“Quartier des Spectacles”的核心开发项目之一，毗邻节日广场，是加拿大国家电影委员会（NFB）和UQAC大学NAD校区数字艺术、动画和设计学院的新所在地。

The Îlot Balmoral, a 13-storey mixed-use office building commissioned by the Société d’Habitation de Montréal (SHDM), rises as a testimony to Montréal’s creative economy. One of the final major developmental pieces of the ‘Quartier des Spectacles’ in downtown Montréal, the impressive structure sits adjacent to Place des Festivals, and is the new home of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and UQAC’s École des arts numériques, de l'animation et du design (NAD School).

“我们提出了四种方案，以实现这座专为文化经济设计的办公楼，Îlot Balmoral被选中是为呼应该地区充满活力的本质，”Provencher_Roy创始合伙人Claude Provencher解释道。“Quartier des Spectacles是一个文化活动中心，对艺术广场周围城市结构的振兴和改造现已基本完成。”

“We proposed four visions of what an office building specifically designed for a cultural economy could look like, and Îlot Balmoral was selected to echo the very vibrant, dynamic nature of the district,” explains architect Claude Provencher, founding partner at Provencher_Roy. “The Quartier des Spectacles is a cultural centre of activity that is now almost complete in its revitalization and transformation of the urban fabric surrounding Place des Arts.”

创造性的建筑象征An architectural symbol of creativity

从表面上看，Îlot Balmoral是一个动态的结构，它从城市肌理中升起。近乎完美的立方体造型简洁而顺滑，外部以精心挑选的白色烧结玻璃和半透明面板包裹。光滑无缝的外观使得立面成为潜在的巨幕，可以展示Quartier des Spectacles项目的投影。微妙而动态的色调为结构提供了质量和实质感，玻璃幕墙为建筑物内部注入了大量光线。烧结玻璃还用于控制建筑物内部的热量，这符合公司的LEED金级可持续发展目标。

On the surface, Îlot Balmoral is a highly dynamic structure rising up from the urban fabric. The almost perfect cube is very clean and slick, and is wrapped in exterior glass that was carefully selected for its white frit pattern and translucent panels. The smooth and seamless exterior positions the façade as a potential giant screen against which projections of Quartier des Spectacles initiatives can be presented. Subtle and dynamic tonality provides a sense of mass and substance to the structure, and the glass façade provides an enormous infusion of light into the building. The frit pattern also serves to control thermal heat gain inside of the building, which meets the firm’s LEED Gold sustainability objectives.

外立面的光线注入室内，动态地突出了大型的内部中庭，中庭对角线斜穿过建筑中心，将建筑分为两个体量。团队根据场地先前存在的行人流量对切口进行了定位，在艺术广场地铁站和节日广场之间对角线移动。为了确定切口，并在天际线上留下建筑物的印记，鲜红色的外部褶皱与干净的玻璃外部形成鲜明对比。选这种颜色是为与Quartier des Spectacles文化品牌材料相呼应，也将Îlot Balmoral与该地区传统的办公大楼区分开来。

The exterior façade’s infusion of light dynamically highlights a large internal atrium, carved diagonally through the centre of the building to create two volumes. The firm oriented the cut based on the site’s previously existing pedestrian flow, moving diagonally between the Place des Arts Metro station and Place des Festivals. To delineate the cut, and to make the building’s mark on the skyline, a bright red external fold contrasts against the clean glass exterior. The colour was chosen as an echo of the cultural branding materials of the Quartier des Spectacles, and serves to distinguish Îlot Balmoral from the functions of more traditional office towers in the district.

锚定创意经济Anchoring the creative economy

为了向Îlot Balmoral对蒙特利尔创意领域的重要性致敬，加拿大国家电影委员会签约成为该建筑的主要租户。为了庆祝50年的卓越电影成就，该机构正在寻求对其设施进行现代化改造，此举还包括在新的大厅中重新安装标志性的NFB标志——这是加拿大设计历史的象征。

As a nod to Îlot Balmoral’s importance to Montreal’s creative scene, the National Film Board of Canada signed on as the building’s core tenant. Celebrating 50 years of film excellence, the Canadian institution was looking to modernize and transform their facilities, and the move included the reinstallation of the iconic NFB logo in the new lobby, which is a symbol of Canadian design history.

“NFB的签署证明了我们的理念，即建筑可以重新部署和规划社区，不仅表现在视觉或物理层面上，并且在它作为周围建筑的核心上，”Provencher说。“此后，其他几个文化组织签署了租约，Îlot Balmoral正在成为我们设想的创意中心。

“The NFB signing was proof of concept for us that architecture can redeploy and reprogram how neighbourhoods are defined, not only on a visual or physical level, but also in its role as a centre of cohabitation,” says Provencher. “Several other cultural organizations have since signed leases, and Îlot Balmoral is becoming the creative hub that we envisioned.”

在不需要对建筑进行任何大规模更改的情况下，Provencher_Roy为NFB重新设计了Îlot Balmoral的四层楼，以满足他们的技术要求，包括编辑室和最先进的设备。他们还在建筑物主入口的红色顶篷正下方建造了一个明亮的白色楼梯，通向NFB办公室。

Without requiring any significant changes to the architecture, Provencher_Roy redesigned four floors of Îlot Balmoral for the NFB in order to accommodate their technical requirements, including editing rooms and the hosting of state-of-the-art equipment. They also built a brightly lit white staircase leading up to the NFB offices, located directly under the red canopy of the building’s main entrance.

活力的灯塔A beacon of vibrancy

Provencher_Roy事务所的包容性设计策略通过吸引行人，穿过建筑物阳光照射分割出的大堂对角线，来注入该地区的活力。中庭确立了大堂的独特性，在白色和浅灰色墙壁以及裸露的混凝土地板的明亮色调中，向天空上升到建筑物的玻璃天花板。这样的色调，与裸露的立柱和标志性的黄铜平台是为了反映和增强大堂的能量和活力。

Provencher_Roy’s inclusive design strategy embraces the vibrancy of the district by drawing in pedestrian flow across the diagonal cut of the building’s sunlit lobby. The atrium establishes the lobby’s unique identity, ascending skyward to the building’s glass ceiling amidst a bright material palette of white and light gray walls, and exposed concrete floors. The palette was chosen to reflect and enhance the energy and dynamism of the lobby, anointed with additional features including exposed columns and a signature brass deck.

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在大堂之上，开放式中庭被明亮的办公室包裹。每层楼的人行天桥连接着建筑的两座体量，穿过中庭，并享有周围城市景观的壮丽景色，以蒙特利尔的地标性皇家山为背景。东北体量比西南体量高出一层，后者拥有屋顶绿地，享有令人叹为观止的城市景观，专为户外活动而设计。

Above the lobby level, the open atrium is framed by brightly lit offices. Pedestrian bridges on every level connect the building’s two volumes, crossing the atrium and providing spectacular views of the surrounding cityscape, with a backdrop of Montreal’s landmark Mont Royal. The northeastern volume floats one storey higher than the southwestern volume, and the latter hosts a rooftop greenspace with breathtaking city views that is designed for outdoor events.

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“这是一次非常有趣的经历，我们的客户渴望实现一些非凡的成就，”Claude Provencher总结道。“除了建筑环境中各个空间的功能之外，我们相信，Îlot Balmoral捕捉并融合了该地区的活力。

“It was a particularly interesting experience, driven by our client’s eagerness to achieve something spectacular,” summarizes Claude Provencher. “Beyond the functionality of the individual spaces of the built environment, we believe that Îlot Balmoral captures and incorporates the vibrancy of the district.”

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