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Dance Floor in Montreal

Urban Installation in Quebec, Canada design by Jean Verville architecte

Design: Jean Verville, architecte

Location: Montréal, Canada

DANCE FLOOR by Jean Verville architect at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Photos: Maxime Brouillet

22 Jul 2016

DANCE FLOOR

Architect Jean Verville wins coveted Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ invited competition for the development of Museum Avenue. During summer 2016, his elegant installation DANCE FLOOR offers a lively landscape animated by an exuberant trompe-l’oeil.

With Verville’s proposal the participants experiment movement, both free and structured by the course, to surrender to the pleasure of an impulsive action or casual wandering. Welcoming varied and unforgettable performances, DANCE FLOOR shines a new dynamism to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ area.

With paving made of more than 5,000 footprints, this urban installation in Montreal composed a stunning mosaic reminiscent of hammered gold, nod to the theme of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ exhibition Pompeii. The gesture, of an equally unexpected as sensational simplicity, traces some chaos proper to crowd and invite passersby to improvise steps on this huge dancing floor.

Shaping a new urban intersection, architect Jean Verville transforms the pedestrian street into a giant interactive activity enlivening downtown Montreal with formidable improvised dances, while encouraging the visitor to build its customized tour within the works of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ Sculpture Garden.

About Jean Verville
The practice of Jean Verville is on the fringe of mainstream architecture. For each proposal, architecture, design, museum installation or object, the architect uses the architectural promenade as material to develop the spatial qualities of his experiments.

In addition to its award-winning practice and his significant international publications Jean Verville continues his investigations on architectural design process through a PhD at Université du Québec à Montréal.

Dance Floor in Montreal – Design Information

Client: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Typology: Urban installation
Location: Montreal, Canada
Superficy: 3000 square feet

Year of conception: 2015
Year of construction: 2016
Technical Project manager: Exhibitions production team of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Construction: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts technical team