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Roof Line Garden
By : Coryn Kempster / Julia Jamrozik
GRANDS PRIX DU DESIGN – 14th edition
Discipline : Architecture
Categories : Other categories in architecture / Temporary Installation : Gold Certification
Barricade tape is an ubiquitous, man-made material, typically used to delineate a perimeter and keep people out, but in Roof Line Garden it invites people in, to inhabit a colourful immersive environment. Occupying the rooftop terrace of the Musée de la civilisation de Québec during the summer season, from 2018 to 2020, and visible from the street, the Dufferin Terrace and even on the Québec City-Lévis Ferry, the installation reinterprets both the roof line of the Moshe Safdie designed building and the roofs of Old Québec.
Creating a canopy of colorful lines, thousands of strands of tape are suspended from a triangulated metal frame with a stretched net as armature. Inspired by the theme of the Museum's major summer exhibition, the project works with patterns, order, colour and density, as a play on the formal language of historical garden design but uses contemporary hyper un-natural materials. The experience of the installation changes with the intensity of light and wind, and this transformation is both visual and auditory, as the tape’s movement varies from a quiet stir to a vigorous rustle.
This installation is a reinterpretation of Line Garden, created by the same designers in 2014 for the International Garden Festival at the Jardins de Métis. It is part of the Festival's extra-mural component, "Métis-sur-…", which aims to bring contemporary creation to an urban environment.
Collaboration
Festival international de jardins
Musée de la civilisation de Québec