Jessica Lam, image courtesy of Laurentian University School of Architecture
project | viewing pavilion by david fortin
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focussing the landscape gaze
Signage explains the reclamation of the slag hills by the mining company Vale in relation to the broader re-greening agenda of Greater Sudbury, as well as the Superstack’s role in improving air quality in the city. New trees along sightlines will extend the way the pavilion frames the stack in the landscape, away from its blackened past and towards future smelting processes that negate the need for it.
T he re -C reation pavilion is a collaboration between Dynamic Earth, Sudbury’s interactive science museum, and second-year students at the Laurentian University School of Architecture. Given the geological and mining emphasis of the museum, students designed a pavilion that acts as a lens that captures aspects of Sudbury’s landscape impacted by the mining industry. They are also building the pavilion which is expected to be finished in October of 2015. Horizontal charred wood slats and benches reference the extensive use of roast yards during Sudbury’s early mining history when an estimated 3.3 million cubic metres of wood were burned to remove sulphur from the ore. Viewlines are established to slag hills, the result of a process whereby molten iron was removed from ore through smelting and then the rock waste was dumped into the landscape. It also focusses on the iconic 380m tall Superstack built in the early 1970s to disperse sulphur and other smelting by-products.
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above: the model of the pavilion right: stack flash-burning (which acts as a wood preservative) the cedar planks that make up the horizontal slats of the pavilion.
David Fortin
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