Philippe Fournier_Portfolio_2024
Portfolio, Philippe Fournier, 2024. A selection of personal, academic and professional projects in architecture & design. All rights reserved.
Portfolio, Philippe Fournier, 2024. A selection of personal, academic and professional projects in architecture & design. All rights reserved.
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The design for the second location of the Montreal Holocaust<br />
Memorial Museum was open to competition in 2022, and the<br />
Azrieli Global Studio invited students to propose their own theoretical<br />
proposals. Our design is deliberately contextual on the outside while<br />
minimalistic on the inside. Saint Laurent Boulevard is a historic hub<br />
of Montreal’s Jewish community that is now a major nightlife and<br />
commercial arterial, full of murals, window shoppers and patios<br />
especially when pedestrianized in the summer months. We sought<br />
to find a way to balance the gravity of the tragedy that the musuem’s<br />
content displays with Saint Laurent’s role as a symbolic place of<br />
refuge and ultimately survival and thriving of the Jewish community<br />
even after the Holocaust. The building’s design is therefore extremely<br />
contextual, mimicing the existing street fabric pattern of transparent<br />
ground floor retail (which contain the brighter public programs) with<br />
opaque masonry upper floors (which contain the darker, private<br />
exhibits.<br />
Interior View | Mimicing Agora the existing street fabric pattern of transparent ground floor retail<br />
with masonry upper floors, the building draws people in through a through a<br />
three storey atrium with a large commemorative mural visible from passerby<br />
on the sidewalk. Inside, visitors circulate through exhibits around a central<br />
commemorative exterior space which also brings in the relief of natural light<br />
between the darker exhibits.<br />
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Exterior View | Memorial Garden - Reflection Space<br />
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