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ST-JEAN, Main Street Management

Why | To update the 5-years integral strategy of a main street
What | Analysis + process management + surveys + interviews + vision + strategy + action plan
Where | Rue Saint Jean, Ville de Québec, Québec, Canada
Who | For AGAF (shopkeepers association)

St-Jean street runs through the Faubourg St-Jean-Baptiste in Québec city. It is a lively shopping street but that can be improved. Within the Fondation Rues Principales, I assisted the Association of Business Traders and Shopkeepers to update their integral strategy for the five coming years. We got new data: customers’ needs and origin analysis, socio-economical profile, surveys, commercial composition and mix, accessibility.

We brought images and sheets and analysed them with volunteer shopkeepers. Together we formulated a mission and vision for the main street. We developed together an action plan for each of the aspects that benefit the prosperity of the main street: organisation (budget, planning, people), physical improvements (shop displays, architecture, public spaces), economical development (mix and composition of the supply), city marketing (promotion and animation).

VAL MORIN, Revitalized Village

Why | To revitalise the centre of a shrinking city with a 3-years program
What | Analysis + process management + workshops + strategies + first actions plan
Where |  Val-Morin, Québec, Canada
Who | For city of Val-Morin

I assisted in the collaborative process for the development of the SWOT analysis and short term / tactical revitalization strategy. With a core group, we visited the centre by bus with a local historian, we hold an evening to present data and collect ideas to finally meet again to develop an action plan.

TRANSITION PARK, Relaxing Station Square

Why | To design a square/park at the back of a big station
What | Analysis + concept + model + construction details
Where | Rotterdam, the Netherlands
With |  TU-Delft
Who | For TU-Delft

To give sense back to the district at the back of the station, the residential, green and quiet nature is emphasized. In that way, the rear area becomes complementary to the main entrance of the station, which is located in the rather concrete-like business district of Rotterdam. Moreover the central station is about to be completely rebuild. It will welcome two new HSL (High Speed Lane) at the studied side of the station. The idea is to offer new facilities and a public garden. The garden is a place where to nicely kill the time for travelers but also a meeting place for the inhabitants.

The theme of the park is obviously the journey. Little follies-pavilions run along the garden and create new connections.

The follies would represent people’s mind opening out during their trips. They start closed and steady from a typical XIXth century Dutch house, then lose few by few their rigidity by developing through the park and finally arrive completely transformed at the new station.

These follies also welcome the arriving persons and structure the square which was quite messy.

They concentrate recreational activities like a newsagent, a florist, a taxi rank, an e-space, an art studio, a sweets and ice creams shop and an infobox for the new Arts Centre.

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