魁北克科里沃图书馆

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原名称：Monique Corriveau-Library

设计单位：Dan Hanganu , Côté Leahy Cardas Architects

位置：加拿大

建筑设计负责人：Jacques Côté, Sébastien Laberge,

结构工程师：BPR

机电工程师：BPR

设计团队：Dan S. Hanganu, Gilles Prud’homme, Diana Cardas, Sébastien Laberge Team: Pascal Gobeil, Martin Girar

承包人：Pomerleau

这是由Dan Hanganu 与 Côté Leahy Cardas Architects联合设计的魁北克科里沃图书馆。设在Saint-Denys-du-Plateau教堂，是教堂的延伸部分，在建筑形式上相当不寻常，是文化建筑和宗教建筑的一种结合体。从形象上看，它如通过一个被风吹气的大帐篷。其内部具有图书馆的公共职能区，如书架、阅读区、工作区等。为了强调流动性，建筑拱腹的窗口换成玻璃面板，让每束光在视觉上无缝地下滑内部，形成视觉连续性的启示。

译者：筑龙网 艾比

The Monique-Corriveau Library, housed in the Saint-Denys-du-Plateau church, is an exception, and in a rather unusual way. It is a tribute to the career—exceptional for her time—of the Quebec writer whose name it honours. This mother of 10 children, to each of whom she dedicated a book, was the author of numerous children’s books and winner of several literary awards.The St. Denys-du-Plateau Church, a remarkable creation of the late architect Jean-Marie Roy erected in 1964, was part of this renewal (second Vatican Consul), at once architectural and religious.

Converting and expanding such an eloquent example of modern Quebec architectural heritage is a very delicate operation which must be approached with respect and humility.[...] Saint-Denys-du-Plateau Church deserves this special consideration due to its unusual, dynamic volume, which evokes a huge tent inflated by the wind and anchored to the ground with tensioners.

The nave houses the library’s public functions, with shelves and work and reading areas, while the addition contains the administration and community hall. This separation of functions means that the community hall can be kept open outside library opening hours, while the spectacular and monumental volume of the nave is preserved, since the architectural concept is to transform the space into a model of spatial appropriation as a reinterpretation of the interior.To accentuate the fluidity of this volume, the solid soffit above the window has been replaced by glass panel which allows each beam to visually slip seamlessly to its exterior steel base, a revelation of visual continuity.

The volume replacing the presbytery and community hall occupies the same footprint and was executed in clear, silk-screened and coloured glass panels. It is separated from the library by a void, marking the transition from old to new. At the front, extending the structure of the choir-screen and the canopy, a code-required emergency staircase is housed in a coloured glass enclosure signalling the new place, dominating a new parvis, reconfigured with street furniture, trees and other greenery. Building on transparency and reflection, the architects have made a strong statement with colour at the ends of the building, an allusion to the vibrant, bold colours of the 1960s, which contrast the whiteness and brilliance newly captured in the remarkable form of the original church.