The Mcgill university health center has decided to abandon its five current sites (Montreal general, Royal Victoria, Montreal neurological, Montreal chest, Montreal children's) and to build a new institution on the glen yards, bordering Westmount and NDG. They have hired us to study the reuse of the current buildings, beginning with the Royal Victoria hospital. Our job as the consulting architect is three-fold 1. To evaluate the heritage value of the current buildings 2.to propose a strategy for reuse 3. to design a segment of your proposal. Proposal for reuse should be both reasonable and feasible. And should build on the values we have articulated in preliminary evaluation. The project design must include an overall site strategy.

in order to keep the architectural heritage significance of royal victoria hospital while creating an attractive public space, i propose to reuse the site as an international institution: united religion. the following are reasons supporting the proposal:
1. attractive place can draw people from all over the
world. united religion, a branch of the united na-
tions, is a worldwide institution whose concerns are to encourage the communication between different religions and to handle worldwide religious a-
ffairs. different religions and countries will send their ambassadors or representives to montreal.
2. the purpose of this proposal is to increase montreal's religious culture, creating colorful cultural layers which attract tourists to visit city.
3. the site is an ideal place for a religious institution. two important landscape elements are mount royal and the st. laurence river. sherbrooke and st. catherines street already establish a strong east and west relationship. in order to compliment
montreal's strong axes and two importmant natural elements, the royal victoria reuse will offer a natural and visual relationship between the north south. the rvh site is adjecent to university street. the massive scale of the building will be treated as the metaphorical gate of mount royal. the heritage stone gate is facing the st. laurence river. additionally, a public comemry and church are located at the north side of mount-royal.
4. reuse the building will include changes according to modern functional needs. all rvh buildings will be treated as a system. by solving the issue of traffic circulation and parking on the site, a good hint for reuse is discovered. the original plan did take the parking factor into account. i plan to demolish the building just behind the original
adminstration building, which is the physical center of the rvh. above the ground will be a public garden and under ground is to be a central parking space for builings all around it. the public garden will become the active exterior public core of the site.