Design a living environment for the citizens, employees and community organizations who will make it their own
Through a series of surveys and co-design workshops conducted with citizens, community organizations, employees and elected officials, we developed an inspiring vision statement and nine guiding principles to serve as the basis for the project. This consultation also led to the planning and categorization of uses needed to materialize the overall experience of the site as envisioned by users.
Rédaction de l'énoncé de vision pour l'expérience du lieu
Rédaction de 9 principes directeurs ayant agi comme référence tout au long du projet
Plan des usages permettant de visualiser les fonctions et l'expérience à viser
Enquête terrain avec une école primaire qui se rend à la Maison de la culture pour voir une pièce de théâtre
We met with each community organization individually to fully understand their needs so we could design a living environment that would be appropriate for their use. We then defined organizational charts that highlighted the links between each function of a hub and the criteria for a human experience that that would inform the FTP. We also developed three types of administrative offices.
Session de travail individuel avec chaque organisme communautaire concerné par le projet afin de préciser leurs besoins en locaux d'activités et administratif
Illustrations des fonctions pressenties dans le lieu : outil permettant aux organismes de se projeter concrètement dans l'usage des espaces
Session de travail interne visant le clustering des fonctionnalités prévues à Espace Rivière dans le but de concevoir une expérience fluide
Session de travail avec l'équipe projet visant à valider le concept de pôle thématique
Schématisation de la proposition de concept par pôles thématiques
Organigramme démontrant les liens fonctionnels entre les différentes fonctions d'un pôle thématique
Typologies d'espace de bureaux développées pour répondre aux besoins de organsimes de façon pérenne
Because of Meilleur Monde's comprehensive understanding of the vision and features intended for the future users of the space, we were invited to sit in on the technical committee during the evaluation of finalist proposals for the Espace Rivière competition. Our mandate was specifically to evaluate the citizen experience, including that of community organizations with whom we had worked extensively beforehand.
Once the winning team of the architectural competition was selected, Meilleur Monde was called upon to collaborate with the designers to refine their architectural sketches. Since architects and engineers can quickly end up buried under an impressive number of technical constraints, our role was to keep the user experience in mind in order to converge on a concept that was both efficient and human.
