Chapter 4: Analysis
The urban design of a mining town on the North may seem typical taking into account harsh climate and including homes, community buildings, town’s stores designed to benefit the residents, and some public spaces. Nevertheless, this set brings a great variety of choices in combination of all those components in different quantity and quality that is proven by boom of company towns in 19th century all other the world. Once the population of a particular mining town was grown to a certain extent, a mining company had to provide other type of community architecture, such as schools, medical and sport facilities, religious architecture, and even cemeteries. The culture of migrated workers and a particular country where a town …show more content…
Fermont is one of the eccentric settlement poles whose birth resulted from the growth of the market for raw materials (Simard & Brisson 2013). Fermont is full of activities and industrial projects that are nevertheless concentrated in extractive activities. The city is the largest urban agglomeration in northern …show more content…
The construction of the settlement is based on planning concepts “entailing energy conservation in all its forms, the use of passive solar energy, and ecological common sense” (Sheppard 2007). Fermont’s dominant feature is a windscreen structure. The overall strategy implementation and construction of this curtain wall designed to protect the city from the prevailing winds, to develop a microclimate control the accumulation of snowdrifts and optimize traffic. The firm of Desnoyers and Schoenauer was hired by the Quebec Cartier Mining Company in the late 1960s. The inspiration came from Swedish architect Ralph Erskine, who had designed a similar building in 1962 to provide housing for a mining town Svaapavaara in Swedish