littoral est competition**
The project aims to re-establish dialogue between the city and the coastline by revaluing existing environments, natural and anthropic, with the deployment of a continuous network of riverside public spaces. Taking up the subtleties of identity of the flats, this large linear park favors gentle interventions and the optimization of existing infrastructure. The project proposes the transition from a landscape greatly modified by human presence (affecting its diversity, its specificities, its resilience) to the construction of a new identity associated with the ecological dimension.
Continuing with the evolving nature of the river, the artificial terrain gradually gives back its place to the dynamic movement of the water. This long temporality is added to those of the seasons and the tides which call for a reinterpretation and a continual rediscovery of the experience of the banks.
Territory of embankments and highway embankments, the infrastructures are partially dismantled to better physically and visually connect urban living environments to the river. A barrier that fragments the territory, the Dufferin-Montmorency highway is transformed into an urban boulevard that highlights the lines of force of the coastal landscape. This new axis ensures improved accessibility and safety to the coastline. The residual linear right-of-way of the old claimed highway generates a new public life on the water's edge.