Image of the First Place Project, Elevating Montreal?s horizons: A Watertower Renaissance, by Julien
Rozon and Mathias Madelein (recent graduates from McGill University)
The winners of the Canadian Centre for Architecture’s (CCA) Interuniversity Charette 2024 were recently announced during an awards ceremony, held at the CCA in February.
This year?s edition of the CCA Charrette, called Beyond the Roof, invited participants to choose the roof of an existing building and propose an intervention that “challenges the roof as a fifth facade and calls into question the notions of property, habitat, use and legislation.”
The jury evaluated a total of 48 proposals submitted by teams composed of undergraduate and graduate students, as well as recent graduates from the Université de Montréal, McGill University, Concordia University, UQAM, Carleton University, University of Ottawa, University of Toronto, Université Laval, University of Waterloo, University of British Columbia, and Ontario Collage of Art and Design University. The jury members included Nicolay Boyadjiev, an architect, Practice Lab Director at re:arc institute and Studio Director of Antikythera’s philosophy of technology think tank hosted at Berggruen Institute; Daniel Zamarbide, an architect, co-director of the ALICE laboratory and Superstudio at EPFL, and founder of BUREAU; and Alena Prochazka, who holds a Ph.D. in Urban Studies, teaches architectural studio at the schools of architecture in...