Agora Maximus by LAAB Collective + SDC

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Agora Maximus是一个创新的步行街道项目，它通过提出高度耐用、集成化和大量种植化的模块式装置，结合受蒙特利尔拉丁区标志性文化启发的即时标示设计，突破了战术都市主义（通过一种低成本、临时性的环境设计改善当地社区和城市聚集地）的界限。

Agora Maximus is an innovative pedestrianization project that pushes the boundaries of tactical urbanism by proposing highly durable, integrated, and heavily planted modular installation, combined with an instantly iconic signature inspired by Montreal’s Quartier Latin.

▼项目鸟瞰图，Bird eye view of the project ©Raphaël Thibodeau

为了实现这一雄心勃勃的目标，设计团队提出了一种让游客沉浸其中且充满活力的临时街景装置，以确立拉丁区作为蒙特利尔市法国机构后续发展的基础性地位，并展示其充满活力的节日文化和生活乐趣。借以这个独特的身份，设计概念和叙事情节旨在以俏皮的设计手法展现神秘的Saint-Denis街道空间特质以及其鲜明的“拉丁”性格。

▼装置结构示意图，Diagram of the installation’s structure ©LAAB Collective

To achieve this ambitious agenda, the design team’s approach proposes an immersive and vibrant temporary streetscape installation, confirming the Quartier Latin’s legacy as the founding place of the city’s French institutions, as well as showcasing its vibrant festive culture and joie de vivre. Drawing on this singular identity, the concept and storyline aim to playfully project the identity of mythical Saint-Denis Street, with its resolutely “Latin” character.

▼为市民提供休息空间的装置，An installation that provides recreational spaces for citizens ©Raphaël Thibodeau

▼装置及其背后的历史性建筑，The installation and the historical buildings behind it ©Raphaël Thibodeau

因此，Agora Maximus是一种包容的城市形式以承载St-Denis街（2022-2024 年）的季节性游行，街道设有观景台和有利观景点，可以在夏季节庆期间欣赏卡通般的街景及其激发的生活艺术。本项目给游客带来沉浸式且引人入胜的景观体验，它结合了拉丁文化的两个地标：Agora，一个市民集会的场所；以及Circus Maximus，一个用于表演娱乐的线性圆形剧场。通过这种方式，该概念通过将城市空间转变为线性舞台并在街道上间隔放置醒目的像素化弹出式座位的形式，向拉丁区节日、马戏团和实验艺术致敬。

▼装置手绘图，Sketch of the installation ©LAAB Collective

As such, the Agora Maximus is an inclusive urban form that celebrates the seasonal pedestrianization of St-Denis Street (2022-2024) with viewing platforms and vantage points to take in the animated streetscape and its offerings of living arts during the summer festivals. Immersive and intriguing, it combines two landmarks of Latin culture: the Agora, a place for civic meetings, and the Circus Maximus, a linear amphitheater for live entertainment. In this way, the concept pays homage to festivals, circuses, and experimental arts by transforming the urban space into a linear stage, with striking pixelated pop-up seating arrangements placed at intervals along the street.

▼为市民提供表演空间的装置，An installation that provides performance spaces for citizens ©Raphaël Thibodeau

▼公共座椅，Public seats ©Raphaël Thibodeau

▼与绿植结合的公共座椅，Public seats with plantation ©Raphaël Thibodeau

▼座椅近景，Close shot of the seats ©Raphaël Thibodeau

本项目于2022年主要在历史悠久的St-Sulpice图书馆前落地，之后会在2023年和2024年顺着整条街道延伸。这个模块化平台将为行人提供社交和欣赏风景的无障碍开放空间。本项目的阶梯轮廓让人想起拉丁区文化机构的主楼梯。这些模块化装置充满了趣味，设计采用覆满绿色植物的彩色“像素”堆叠的形式，增强了St-Denis街的树木覆盖率。在这些彩色的“像素”中，设计师加入了灰色以融入周边传统环境，白色则唤起现代感，橙色则是对道路工程视觉系统的俏皮呼应。

▼装置手绘图，Sketch of the installation ©LAAB Collective

Mainly located in front of the historic St-Sulpice Library in 2022, then along the whole street in 2023 and 2024, the modular platforms offer accessible open spaces for pedestrians to socialize and take in the scenery. Their stepped profile evokes the main staircases of the cultural institutions of the Quartier Latin. Informal and playful, they take the form of colorful mounds of “pixels” filled with greenery, enhancing the tree coverage of St-Denis Street. The pixels’ colorful swatches use GREY to integrate into heritage surroundings, WHITE to evoke modernity, and ORANGE to deliver a playful nod to roadwork visual codes.

▼与公共标识系统结合的装置，The installation combines with the public signage system ©Raphaël Thibodeau

▼装置与地面铺装，The installation and the pavement ©Raphaël Thibodeau

▼装置与拉丁文化标语，The installation and the Latin signages ©Raphaël Thibodeau

各个活动平台通过沿街像素图案组成的连续街头艺术图形连接起来，为行人提供了不断变化的视觉旅程。在关键商业橱窗节点处的视觉/图形装饰策略增强了de Maisonneuve街道和Sherbrooke街道之间的沉浸式城市漫步体验。

The various platforms are linked by a continuous street-art graphic intervention made of pixel patterns along the whole length of the street, providing an ever-changing visual journey for pedestrians. A paired strategy of visual/graphic dressing of key commercial windows along the street enhances the immersive stroll and urban experience between de Maisonneuve and Sherbrooke streets.

▼装置为街道提供了连续的视觉景观，The installation brings a continuous streetscape ©Raphaël Thibodeau

Project Name: Agora Maximus
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Client: SDC Quartier Latin and the Partenariat du Quartier des spectacles de Montréal
Architects/Designers: LAAB Collective in collaboration with Signature design communication
Design team: Michel Lauzon, Vincent Clarizio, Maëva Lonni, Frédérick Gagliolo, Adam Ghadi-Delgado, Margot Greenbaum.
Project type: Urban design, Tactical urbanism, Temporary & Events installations, Industrial design, Street furniture
Technical description: An assembly of pixels of 5 different heights in painted steel and wood. The pixels can be used as platforms, seats or planters.
Challenges: A modular system, easy to assemble, install, dismantle for summer use over 3 seasons. 
Installation: summer 2022 (2023 and 2024)
Photographer: Raphaël Thibodeau

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