Claude Cormier - Architectes paysagistes
Landscape architects
CCA LAWNS
Montreal (Quebec), Canada

CCA LAWNS

Montreal (Quebec), Canada

Project
Client
Canadian Centre of Architecture
Year
2009
Status
proposed

Inspired by the CCA exhibition ‘Actions – What You Can do with the City’, and challenged by the high cost of conventional labour-intensive landscape maintenance, an alternative was proposed that would introduce a flock of sheep to keep the museum’s grounds trimmed and fertilised. The herd would be moved to the city during the summer months, with an urban shepherd on hand to tend their needs. As part of the museum’s mandate, this intervention advances the debate on a possible future for urban agriculture.

 

Surface
3500m2 (0.9 acre)

Credits

1. Photomontage, CC+A, January 2009
2. Sheep on the south lawn of the White House,USA, WhiteHouse.gov cites the library of Congress 1918
3. Photomontage, CC+A, January 2009
4. Plan, CC+A, January 2009
5. Photomontage, CC+A, January 2009