Le Théâtre de la Nuit.
Prize: Third Prize - CCA Interuniversity Charrette
Type: Adaptive Reuse
Year: 2024
Context: Competition
Location: Pointe St-Charles, Montréal
The airspace above the built environment beckons exploration, offering opportunities to discover overlooked spaces that have evaded the constraints of urban planning and the demands of the real estate market, which covet elevated panoramas. The creation of this intermediary realm between rooftops and the sky unveils pockets of an unseen landscape ripe with untapped potential. Le Théâtre de la Nuit explores the possibility of the roof as a space for artistic intervention. The proposed architecture is an urban interpretation of a theatrical stage, drawing patrons together to interact with the space and express their authentic selves. Cities cannot exist without considering their social component and Le Theatre de la Nuit not only embraces this idea but showcases it. The architecture of the redeveloped roofscape is an action and process that brings people together. In daylight, the projection screens are blank. At sundown the scenography awakes. Textiles strung between the façade openings display scenes from within the rooftop; microphones flood the street below with distinct whispers from above. The installation begins with the first act, the Outsider, allowing individuals to perceive the theater from afar, watching and listening from the outside. With their attention drawn, the second act debuts, the Spectator. Once immersed, one enters the third and final act, the Performer.

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