Moving Dunes, Montréal, Québec Urban Design, Canadian Landscape Architecture Photos
Moving Dunes in Montréal, Quebec
3 Nov 2020
Moving Dunes
Design: NÓS
Location: Montréal, Québec, Canada
Moving Dunes – An experiential Mirage in the Heart of Downtown Montreal

photo © Eloa Defly
Moving Dunes is inspired by the early arts. It is an extension of the temporary exhibit From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-face Picasso, Past and Present, at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA). The plastic approach of cubist painters questions the role of perspective in visual representation.

photo © Raphaël Thibodeau
Anamorphosis, which is the distortion of the subject reconfiguring itself according to the position of the body in space, is one of the methods used. Through this process, Moving Dunes introduces the public to the essence of this approach in a playful way.
photo left © Olivier Bousquet – right © Raphaël Thibodeau
By manipulating the street surface, large ripples are generated, recalling the features of a body or a face. Reflective spheres and geometric shapes amplify patterns and multiply points of view. As the observer moves, the street transforms, shapes are reversed, the ground comes alive and destabilizes.

photo © Eloa Defly
Moving Dunes is an experiential mirage in the heart of Downtown Montreal. Along the way, the passer-by discovers the presence of spheres reflecting the different buildings of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, all unique...