The Agora Maximus is a pedestrianization project inspired by Montreal?s Quartier Latin, designed by the LAAB collective in collaboration with Signature Design Communication.
Photo credit: Raphael Thibodeau
The project proposes a durable, integrated, and heavily planted modular installation, in front of the St-Sulpice Library in 2022, then along the whole  Saint-Denis Street in 2023 and 2024.

Immersive and intriguing, the installation combines two landmarks of Latin culture: the Agora, a place for civic meetings, and the Circus Maximus, a linear amphitheater for live entertainment.

In this way, the concept pays homage to festivals, circuses, and experimental arts by transforming the urban space into a linear stage, with striking pixelated pop-up seating arrangements placed at intervals along the street. Photo credit: Raphael Thibodeau
The modular platforms offer accessible open spaces for pedestrians to socialize and take in the scenery. Their stepped profile evokes the main staircases of the cultural institutions of the Quartier Latin. Informal and playful, they take the form of colorful mounds of “pixels” filled with greenery, enhancing the tree coverage of St-Denis Street. The pixels’ colorful swatches use GREY to integrate into heritage surroundings, WHITE to evoke modernity, and ORANGE to deliver a playful nod to roadwork visual codes.
The various platforms are linked by a continuous street-art graphic intervention made of pixel patter...