original Forum

The Montreal Forum was the second building of that name to occupy the site. The original Forum building was built by Joseph-Alphonse Christin in 1908. A covered oval-shaped rollerskating track wrapped around an exterior ice-skating rink. The building was demolished in 1923 to make way for the Montreal Forum.

model making progress

I know everything takes twice as long as you planned, but this is going really slowly… funny discovery on the way though ~

big model

got the base done on this bad boy – now where’s the building?

long section

first shot at assembling the long section (Place Alexis-Nihon to the left)… not sure yet what kind of graphics i want for the final drawing…

to quote the bigness man…

‘Bigness is no longer a part of any urban tissue. It exists, at most, it coexists. Its subtext is fuck context’.

site photos

some pictures i took last May of the Pepsi Forum

model making #4

tried some of that grey foam hoping to make the building look a little less aggressive… looking to find the right massing for the ground level but the result still doesn’t look right… going to jump scales to 1:200 now so i can get atleast get one ground level layout for the upcoming presentation (tuesday 11th november)… also the shaping of the top volume seems too arbitrary but again it might be a scale thing~

*that grey foam is amazing

Place Alexis Nihon

My site’s neighbour to the west Place Alexis-Nihon

need to stop making white massing models… intention is to make the individual apartment and office units apparent… these models are making the building seem way too massive… trying to get a laser cut model done now but it doesn’t look like that will be for tonight~~

first modelling attempts for ground level…