Claude Cormier, associates' d'Youville, Canada
The historic square forms meeting points for significant roads and connections to the city's waterfront. It has had been designed carefully in response to the political contect as there is archaeological and cultural importance.
I admire this design immensley, I feel it responds to the existing conditions appropriately with the used patterns and colour palette. The paths are particularly favorable as the timber boardwalks represent connections to domestic areas such as homes, the concrete represents commercial pathways like restaurants and the granite/limestone is for institutional places like museums. The shape of the existing site fits with the form and patterns of the design.
His philosophy was "if you do too much it just becomes noise" with his inspiration deriving from a textile pattern.
Overall, the difference in interpretations, conceptual thinking and site context are interesting to compare and consider when viewing the similarities of the design. For me it is representation of 'no 2 designers are the same' though it is a similar product with similar purpose, the theory is completely independent of one another!
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