Reimagined Petrochemical Field Projects

Projet Paysage & Cardin Julien Develop a Civic Landscape

Projet Paysage, in collaboration with architecture firm Cardin Julien, has transformed a former petrochemical brownfield in Laval, Canada, into a civic landscape called Espace citoyen des Confluents. This project is noteworthy for integrating a library, cultural spaces, and municipal services within a 13-acre site crisscrossed with pathways, rest areas, and an active mobility network.

The strategic civic landscape project reverses the industrial degradation of the land by recreating natural regeneration processes — a network of permeable pathways, drainage trenches, and interconnected basins captures 100% a network of permeable pathways, drainage trenches, and interconnected basins captures. This volume is slowly directed it through wetlands that foster wildlife habitats. More than 300 trees across 25 species have been planted alongside spontaneous vegetation that establishes biological corridors.

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