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Infiltrating Montreal through the apartment-hotel: the anticipated mystery and strange familiarity of inhabiting the visited city. © Michelle Lee, School of Architecture, Carleton University. 2005 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 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Abstract A city’s built fabric is inscribed with a silent framework that at times, is imperceptible to those who permanently reside within its bounds, even though it is they, the permanent residents, who give rise to this framework, by inhabiting the city over time. In contrast, the visitor to a city is keenly aware of a city’s latent framework. The morphology of the ‘visited city' is of heightened clarity. The apartment-hotel, in turn, is a privileged urban figure as it is a hinge point between the visitor and the city. Through an architecture that celebrates the sequencing and ritual of everyday life, the apartment-hotel speaks of the tension between the transient nature of accommodation architecture and the permanence of urban domestic life. Its programmatic elements reveal to visitors the unknown domestic spaces of the visited city for the duration of their stay. This thesis examines the apartment-hotel as a didactic architectural device in the specific context of Montreal, a city possessing a strong urban logic that infiltrates architectural form and experience. ii Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Acknowledgements I would like to thank my thesis advisor, Professor Janine Debanne for her direction, assistance, and guidance. In particular, Professor Debanne's critical review and command of language was instrumental in this project. I also wish to thank Professors Rafael Gomez-Moriana and Paul Kariouk, for providing their insight in this project, as well as in past work. Special thanks should be given to my student colleague, Alla Cheung, who helped me in many ways. Finally, thank you to Stanley Lewis for showing Montreal to me. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Table of Contents: A bstract ....................................................................................................ii Acknowledgements ...............................................................................iii Table of Contents ..................................................................................iv List of Illustrations .....................................................................................vi List of Plates ............................................................................................. x List of Appendices .................................................................................xi Introduction ............................................................................................xiii Chapter One: The Visited C ity............................................................. 1 1.1: Crossing the Threshold of Others ..................................................1 1.2: An Interpretation of the Visitor Through the Sociology of Georg Simmel .................................................................................... 2 1.3: Travel and the Ritual of Everyday Life in the Visited C ity 5 1.4: Inhabiting the Visited City ............................................................. 8 1.5: Montreal as the Visited City .........................................................10 Chapter Two: The Apartment-Hotel as an Anchor-Point for the Visitor’s Discovery of Urban Space......................................12 2.1: Finding Room for the Visitor in the City ......................................12 2.2: The Mainstream Hotel ............................................................. 14 2.3: The Boutique Hotel ........................................................................19 2.4: The Apartm ent-H otel ................................................................... 23 Chapter Three: Boulevard Saint Laurent.......................................... 36 3.1: Identity of Boulevard Saint Laurent ........................................... 36 3.2: Formation of the Boulevard ........................................................ 38 3.3: The Development of Vernacular Architecture on Boulevard Saint Laurent ...................................................................... 42 3.4: Foreground and Background Architecture as Vernacular Typologies ................................................................... 46 3.5: Current Economic and Social Conditions of the Boulevard .................................................................................................................49 3.6: Existing Demographics of Boulevard Saint Laurent: ...............55 3.7: The Outdoor Room ....................................................................... 57 3.8: Aspirations ...................................................................................... 64 Chapter Four: Behind the Boulevard.................................................65 4.1: The city inside ................................................................................ 65 4.2: Montreal's urban fabric as “codex" ..........................................67 4.3: Porte-cochere ...............................................................................69 4.4: Alleyways ........................................................................................71 4.5: Voids Versus Yards ........................................................................ 76 4.6: The External Staircase ...................................................................78 4.7: The City of Consensus Versus Deep Inhabitation .................... 82 Conclusion of Part 1 .............................................................................. 83 iv Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. 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Part II: The Design Proposal................................................................ 91 2.1: Design Objectives ......................................................................... 91 2.2: The Visiting Artist as Paradigmatic Urban Visitor ......................92 2.3: Site Considerations ....................................................................... 94 2.4: Design Issues Presented by Site Considerations ....................... 99 2.5: Scales of Urban Inhabitation ......................................................103 2.6: Density of Units ............................................................................. 105 2.7: The Design of the Apartment-Hotel Units ................................108 Unit for the Painter or Sculptor: .................................................. 109 Unit for the Craftsperson or Found-Art Artist: ........................... 110 Unit for the Photographer or Sound Artist .................................111 2.8: Role of Public and Private Spaces ...........................................113 Conclusion of Part II........................................................................... 114 Appendix A......................................................................................... 120 Bibliography........................................................................................ 122 V Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. List of Illustrations Number Page 1. Photomontage Image By Author ........................................................................................

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