이제 또다른 드라마를 목격할 차례이다. 인간과 신을 연결하는 장소; 교회를 현대적인 생활이 투영된 공용공간; 도서관으로 리노베이션하는 이번 프로젝트는 퀘백의 유명 어린이 동화작가 Monique-Corriveau를 위한 헌정도서관으로 이전 교회의 강한 카리스마를 이용, 그녀를 기념하는 상징적 오브제로 탈바꿈 시킨다. 이전 신을 향한 짙은 종교적인 색채는 거대한 메타포를 담아 유동적이며 다이나믹한(동적인) 형상으로; 거대한 텐트와 같은 형상으로 건축적 아름다움과 종교적 공간으로 완성되었다. 그리고 이러한 외형적 특징, 동적인 흐름의 구현은 지면으로 부터 경사지붕을 들려 올리며 그 사이로 내부의 채광을 위한 창문을 수평으로 연속시킴으로써 구현된다. 특히 이러한 건축적 장치를 가능케하는 내부 구조시스템은 거대한 빔을 맞대어 박공지붕형태로 공간을 연속 -전형적인 교회의 공간배치를 위해 무주공간으로 연속된 선형공간을 구현한다.- 시키며, 열린 공간을 창출한다. 이제 이 열린공간 속에 예배를 위한 좌석대신 책장이 열주하고 책을 열람하기 위한 리딩스페이스와 커뮤니티를 나눌 수 있는 휴게공간이 자리하게 된다. 평범하지 않은 비범함은 이제 종교가 아닌 인간에게 사용된다.
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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.
Location: 1100 route de l’Église, Québec [Qc] G1V 3V9
Name of client: Ville de Québec, arrondissement Sainte-Foy – Sillery - Cap-Rouge
Architects: Dan Hanganu + Côté Leahy Cardas Architects
Architecte of the church Saint-Denys-du-Plateau (1964): Jean-Marie Roy
Architect in charge: Jacques Côté, Sébastien Laberge,
Design Team: Dan S. Hanganu, Gilles Prud’homme, Diana Cardas, Sébastien Laberge
Team: Pascal Gobeil, Martin Girard, Marie-Andrée Goyette (CLC), Olivier
Grenier, Martine Walsh, Anne-Catherine Richard, Marc Despaties (DHA)
Structure: BPR
Mechanical/Electricity: BPR
Acoustician: Audiofax
Contractor: Pomerleau
Artists: Claudie Gagnon
Project size: 4400m2 (3 levels)
Cost: $14.7 millions
Date of completion: Occupation autumn 2013
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.
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