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Bound
by concrete walls along Rue William to the north and Rue Brennan to
the south, this underside of the Autoroute Bonaventure is currently
being used as a city parking lot. The complex topography imposed by
the city's need for expeditious transport has deposited a pocket of
space, a kind of urban leftover. Despite the physical speed associated
with the function of an expressway, the underside-- its belly-- feels
contrastly slow, even stagnant when one stands in the presence of parked
automobiles. Analogous to an occlusion of warm and cold fronts, the
underside of the Bonaventure is the other side of the coin; as opposed
to the exposure to open sky and city and lashing wind when speeding
along on the expressway, the Autoroute's very structure and built mass
hovers low and provides strangely quiet shelter for anyone standing
underneath.
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a
preliminary site inquiry——————————————————urban
interstitial
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