Landscape as Infrastructure: Espace citoyen des Confluents, Laval by Projet Paysage

This LEED Gold-certified project in Laval demonstrates climate-conscious urban design through hydrology, landscape, and adaptive reuse of a former petrochemical plant. At Espace citoyen des Confluents (The Confluents Citizen Space) in Laval, Québec, the ground is treated as an active system that organises water, movement, and occupation. Once forested and later converted to agricultural land, this 13-acre site hosted a BASF petrochemical facility during the 1970s and 1980s. Conceived through a transdisciplinary collaboration between Projet Paysage and Cardin Julien from the earliest phases, the project aligns architecture and landscape as a single system. Located at the intersection of Laval’s Saint-François […]