{"id":475254,"date":"2022-07-18T17:11:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T14:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/behind-the-evolution-of-montreals-biodome\/"},"modified":"2022-07-18T17:11:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T14:11:18","slug":"behind-the-evolution-of-montreals-biodome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/behind-the-evolution-of-montreals-biodome\/","title":{"rendered":"#Behind the evolution of Montreal&#8217;s Biod\u00f4me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a348b2edd815\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a348b2edd815\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/behind-the-evolution-of-montreals-biodome\/#%E2%80%9CBehind_the_evolution_of_Montreals_Biodome%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Behind the evolution of Montreal&#8217;s Biod\u00f4me&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/behind-the-evolution-of-montreals-biodome\/#THE_VELODROME\" >THE VELODROME<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/behind-the-evolution-of-montreals-biodome\/#THE_LIVING_SKIN\" >THE LIVING SKIN<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/behind-the-evolution-of-montreals-biodome\/#THE_MEZZANINE\" >THE MEZZANINE<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/behind-the-evolution-of-montreals-biodome\/#THE_ICE_TUNNEL\" >THE ICE TUNNEL<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CBehind_the_evolution_of_Montreals_Biodome%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Behind the evolution of Montreal&#8217;s Biod\u00f4me&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n                            The animals that inhabit Montreal\u2019s beloved Biod\u00f4me are at the centre of its recent architectural overhaul\n                        <\/div>\n<div>\n                                                                        Julie Jodoin is fine with most de<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>ions of Montreal\u2019s Biod\u00f4me\u2014just not zoo. \u201cAt a zoo, you observe animals,\u201d says Jodoin, acting director of Space for Life, the city-owned organization that operates the popular museum. \u201cHere, you\u2019re immersed in their world.\u201d Since its opening in 1992, the Biod\u00f4me has housed 200-plus species in five reproduced ecosystems beneath the soaring concrete vault of the city\u2019s Olympic velodrome. Live lynxes prowl the perimeter of its Laurentian Maple Forest, while the Tropical Rainforest area comes complete with outfit-soaking mists.<\/p>\n<p>By 2014, however, Space for Life\u2019s leadership felt that the Biod\u00f4me wasn\u2019t immersive enough. That year, the museum launched an international design competition, with the goal of adjusting the building\u2019s rote, linear traffic flow and expanding visitors\u2019 exposure to the animals. The winner was Kanva, a small Montreal architecture outfit whose proposal was designed in collaboration with Montreal\u2019s Neuf Architectes and the engineering firms Bouthillette Parizeau and NCK. Kanva\u2019s co-founder, Rami Bebawi, had a flash of self-doubt after his victory. \u201cI knew how to design for people,\u201d he says. \u201cNot penguins.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1238220\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-sizes=\"auto\" class=\"wp-image-1238220 size-featured-image-square lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/G1231_RB_Jimmy-Hamelin-1_EDIT-1-e1658153316573-720x720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bebawi is a co-founder of Kanva, a Montreal-based multidisciplinary architecture firm. Recently, he was the lead architect on Traces, a multi<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> public-art installation at the Canada Pavilion site at Expo 2020 in Dubai. (Photograph by Jimmy Hamelin)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>After a two-year renovation\u2014and plenty of collaboration with local biologists\u2014the Biod\u00f4me reopened in August of 2020, greeting museumgoers with an eye-popping new feature: its grand entrance hall is now enveloped in a \u201cliving skin\u201d made of four-storey swathes of polyester coated with PVC. At the back of the hall, the skin narrows to a slender passageway whose floor slopes almost imperceptibly upward, slowing visitors to prepare them for the wilderness within.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1238221\" style=\"width: 2645px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-sizes=\"auto\" class=\"wp-image-1238221 size-full lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Biodome_dessin04_KANVA-e1657912056893.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2635\" height=\"1931\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Planning drawings for the building and its multiple ecosystems (courtesy Kanva)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The ecosystems got a makeover, too: Kanva chose finishes like glass and local ash wood, materials that are more resistant to decay. The team also designed the museum\u2019s new matrix of ramps to properly shade the Biod\u00f4me\u2019s many plant species and shifted its existing rock formations to facilitate more aerodynamic penguin belly flops. Elsewhere, a basin full of fish, previously obscured by rocks, has been raised, allowing visitors to get closer to the Biod\u00f4me\u2019s cast of creatures than ever before. \u201cThe whole idea of the redesign is that these animals are not exhibits,\u201d Bebawi says. \u201cThis is where they live, and we are their guests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"THE_VELODROME\"><\/span>THE VELODROME<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_1238071\" style=\"width: 5010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-sizes=\"auto\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1238071 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/\u00a9-Espace-pour-la-vie-Claude-LafondBiodome_08-09-2015-10.jpg\" alt=\"(Photograph by Claude Lafond)\" width=\"5000\" height=\"2159\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photograph by Claude Lafond)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kanva\u2019s renovation is also a restoration of an Olympic landmark. Designed by French architect Roger Taillibert, the facility\u2019s original architecture\u2014and, in particular, its vast, vaulted ceiling\u2014was largely obscured in the Biod\u00f4me\u2019s previous incarnation.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"THE_LIVING_SKIN\"><\/span>THE LIVING SKIN<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_1238070\" style=\"width: 3010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-sizes=\"auto\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1238070 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Biodome_photo02_Marc-Cramer_EDIT.jpg\" alt=\"(Photograph by Marc Cramer)\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1860\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photograph by Marc Cramer)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The skin\u2019s seemingly endless surface is multi-functional: it muffles sound and acts as a demarcation between the museum\u2019s entrance and its ecosystems. The material is resilient enough to handle outdoor exposure\u2014necessary, given that it adjoins five dramatically different climate zones.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"THE_MEZZANINE\"><\/span>THE MEZZANINE<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_1238069\" style=\"width: 3214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-sizes=\"auto\" class=\"wp-image-1238069 size-full lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Biodome_photo06_James-Brittain_EDIT-e1657912267238.jpg\" alt=\"(Photograph by James Brittain)\" width=\"3204\" height=\"1944\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photograph by James Brittain)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This area offers an aerial perspective of the Tropical Rainforest, Laurentian Maple Forest and Gulf of St. Lawrence ecosystems. It also contains the Bio-Machine, an interactive exhibition where visitors assume the role of ecosystem \u201coperator,\u201d toggling the environmental factors that keep the various biomes in balance.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"THE_ICE_TUNNEL\"><\/span>THE ICE TUNNEL<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_1238225\" style=\"width: 2005px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-sizes=\"auto\" class=\"wp-image-1238225 size-full lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Melanie-Dusseault_EDIT-e1658153420144.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1995\" height=\"1371\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photograph by Melanie Dusseault)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The entrance to the Sub-Antarctic Islands ecosystem is a downward-sloping passage encrusted with ice. 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