Portfolio de Myriam Rodrigue 2018

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«Living around the Tramway» is a work of reflection on Rimouski City’s transportation system and
their impact on citizens’ lifestyle. It was a work in two phases:
In the first phase, we decides to implement a tram-train on the existing train rail crossing the city in
order to create a link between villages, reduce car dependency, and increase density around the future
tram stations. We chose to increase density by creating polar points around tram stations by using
tactical urbanism. In provinding services through the mobile tram wagons, we could achieve this
goal. Moreover, using the train rail crossing the city was the very unique element that could a give
a visual and physical link to the citizen to the St-Lawrence river and improve their daily lives. This
phase was done in team of 4 people.
In the second phase, we split our team in two. Our team decided to plan an intervention in the city
center while the other planned something in the rural area of the city. Our project involves the restructstuction
and reorganization of the fabric around the shopping center «Carrefour Rimouski»
located in Rimouski-East. This project meant to be a “standard model” of best practice for future interventions
on the urban fabric of the city center. The restructution aim to create a polar points in the
city centered on the tram stations. Around those, it would be possible to live, work and live within 5
minutes of walk.