The competition aimed to generate ideas to rehabilitate the major rivers flowing through the city’s territory. “Parc des Quatre Rivières”, White’s response to the competition brief, is a collection of the naturally, culturally and agriculturally important landscape found in and around Québec.
Based on the Scandinavian philosophy of Allemansrätten – right to public access – the team from White Arkitekter’s Oslo studio developed a proposal that works as a guide at multiple scales, for transitioning the existing Capital National watershed into a national urban park. The Parc des Quatre Rivières is a new bio-physical border that aims to influence the city to grow towards its rivers, blurring the lines between the natural and the urban.
