Moving Dunes Montréal, Québec urban design, Canadian landscape architecture photos
Moving Dunes in Montréal, Quebec
Design: NÓS
Location: Montréal, Québec, Canada
Moving Dunes – An experiential Mirage in the Heart of Downtown Montreal
photo © Eloa Defly
3 Nov 2020
Moving Dunes
Moving Dunes is inspired by the early arts. It is an extension of the temporary exhibit From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-face Picasso, Past and Present, at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA). The plastic approach of cubist painters questions the role of perspective in visual representation.
photo © Raphaël Thibodeau
Anamorphosis, which is the distortion of the subject reconfiguring itself according to the position of the body in space, is one of the methods used. Through this process, Moving Dunes introduces the public to the essence of this approach in a playful way.
photo left © Olivier Bousquet – right © Raphaël Thibodeau
By manipulating the street surface, large ripples are generated, recalling the features of a body or a face. Reflective spheres and geometric shapes amplify patterns and multiply points of view. As the observer moves, the street transforms, shapes are reversed, the ground comes alive and destabilizes.
photo © Eloa Defly
Moving Dunes is an experiential mirage in the heart of Downtown Montreal. Along the way, the passer-by discovers the presence of spheres reflecting the different buildings of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, all unique in their architecture and history. Moving Dunes brings together the real and the virtual worlds and awakens the senses.
photo © Raphaël Thibodeau
The MMFA animated the pedestrian area of avenue Du Musée, which has become a must-see for citizens and tourists alike. The goal was to pedestrianize the street and to create a temporary signature layout.
photo © Alex Lesage
Among the challenges encountered were the development of a concept in relation to the theme of the exhibition, the activation of a pedestrian public space while allowing the passage of emergency vehicles, and the creation of an experience with high media impact on a limited budget.
image © NÓS
Moving Dunes, Montréal – Building Information
Location: Avenue Du Musee, Montreal
Client: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Designers: Charles Laurence Proulx, Gil Hardy, Negar Adibpour, Jean-Benoit Trudelle
Project manager: Charles Laurence Proulx
Collaborators: MU
Budget: $50 000
photo © Raphaël Thibodeau
About NÓS
Founded by Gil Hardy and Charles Laurence Proulx in 2016, NÓS is a Montreal firm that brings together professionals with diverse and complementary expertise around shared projects. Propelled by a resolutely contemporary spirit, each project is an opportunity to invent a unique living environment tailored to its users, thanks to an ambitious and realistic proposal. The NÓS team is made up of daring and creative designers, joined by experienced professionals, bringing depth and demonstrated know-how.
NÓS is the spirit of a new generation that creates, through the arts and architecture, places, and spaces that reflect their contemporary plural identity.
photo © Raphaël Thibodeau
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