Inclus dans:

• Fonds: Fonds Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, 1936-2021
•    Série(s): Landscape architecture projects, 1947-2018
•      Projet: Children's Creative Centre Playground, Canadian Federal Pavilion, Expo '67, Montréal, Québec (1965-1967), 1965-1971

Personnes et institutions:

• Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (archive creator)
• Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (landscape architect)

Titre:

Children's Creative Centre Playground, Canadian Federal Pavilion, Expo '67, Montréal, Québec (1965-1967)

Date:

1965-1971

Niveau de description archivistique:
Project

Collation:

• 82 photographic material
  77 drawings (including 44 reprographic copies)
  0.1 l.m. of textual records
  1 panel

Présentation du contenu:
This project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for the outdoor playground of the Children's Creative Centre. The Centre was part of the Canadian Federal Pavilion built for the Universal and International Exposition of 1967 (Expo 67), located at the south end of Notre-Dame Island in Montréal.

Oberlander worked on this project from 1965-1966. She based her design on children's spontaneous exploration, to encourage self-motivation and creative play. The playground included a rolling terrain, looping paths, a wobble walk made of short logs embeded in the ground, a canal, and "giant wooden building pieces and a rocking boat in water replaced static sculptures". [1] The playground included a sand beach-like area with drifwood and plants to be used as play props. At the centre of the playground was a grass mound with an interior cave and a high wooden platform only reachable by a commando rope. A forty-foot long circulating water channel was situated in the east section of the playground and included two small islands linked by bridges, but was narrow enough to allow children to jump over it.

The project series contains sketches, preliminary landscape concept plans, site plans, general landscape plans at different stages of design development, several sections and detail drawings for the playground's equipment and installations, and presentation drawings, including perspective views. The project series also contains architectural, electrical, and structural drawings of the Pavilion, which were provided to Oberlander for reference. Also included are photographs of the playground, research material on playgrounds, and articles and publications on the project, including Oberlander's writings, and publications on Expo '67.

Source:
[1] Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages. p. 106.

Numéro de référence:

AP075.S1.1965.PR01

Mode de classement:
Material in this project series was kept in its original order when it was first processed upon its arrival at CCA.

Localisation:

Montréal Île de Montréal Québec Canada

Contient:

• AP075.S1.1965.PR01.001, Request for change orders and design development sketch, Children's Creative Centre Playground, Canadian Federal Pavilion, Expo '67, Montréal, Québec, 1966
• AP075.S1.1965.PR01.002, Photographs, Children's Creative Centre Playground, Canadian Federal Pavilion, Expo '67, Montréal, Québec, 1967
• AP075.S1.1965.PR01.003, Report, correspondence and clippings, Children's Creative Centre Playground, Canadian Federal Pavilion, Expo '67, Montréal, Québec, 1967-1968
• AP075.S1.1965.PR01.004, Presentation drawings and text for a presentation, Children's Creative Centre Playground, Canadian Federal Pavilion, Expo '67, Montréal, Québec, circa 1967
• AP075.S1.1965.PR01.005, Correspondence, Children's Creative Centre Playground, Canadian Federal Pavilion, Expo '67, Montréal, Québec, 1965-1966
• AP075.S1.1965.PR01.006, Photographs and clippings of articles, Children's Creative Centre Playground, Canadian Federal Pavilion, Expo '67, Montréal, Québec, 1967-1972
• AP075.S1.1965.PR01.007, Design development drawings and working drawings, Children's Creative Centre Playground, Canadian Federal Pavilion, Expo '67, Montréal, Québec, 1965
• AP075.S1.1965.PR01.008, Correspondence, Children's Creative Centre Playground, Canadian Federal Pavilion, Expo '67, Montréal, Québec, 1965-1967
• AP075.S1.1965.PR01.009, Concept development notes, Children's Creative Centre Playground, Canadian Federal Pavilion, Expo '67, Montréal, Québec, 1966
• AP075.S1.1965.PR01.010, Design development drawings, Children's Creative Centre Playground, Canadian Federal Pavilion, Expo '67, Montréal, Québec, 1966
• AP075.S1.1965.PR01.011, Financial documents, Children's Creative Centre Playground, Canadian Federal Pavilion, Expo '67, Montréal, Québec, 1964-1966
• AP075.S1.1965.PR01.012, Research and concept notes, Children's Creative Centre Playground, Canadian Federal Pavilion, Expo '67, Montréal, Québec, circa 1967
• AP075.S1.1965.PR01.013, Article on Children's Creative Centre Playground, Canadian Federal Pavilion, Expo '67, Montréal, Québec, 1967
• AP075.S1.1965.PR01.014, Concept notes, Children's Creative Centre Playground, Canadian Federal Pavilion, Expo '67, Montréal, Québec, circa 1967
• AP075.S1.1965.PR01.015, Design development drawings, Children's Creative Centre Playground, Canadian Federal Pavilion, Expo '67, Montréal, Québec, 1966
• AP075.S1.1965.PR01.016, Design development drawings, Children's Creative Centre Playground, Canadian Federal Pavilion, Expo '67, Montréal, Québec, 1965-1966
• AP075.S1.1965.PR01.017, Presentation drawing, Children's Creative Centre Playground, Canadian Federal Pavilion, Expo '67, Montréal, Québec, circa 1967
• AP075.S1.1965.PR01.018, Layouts and negatives for presentation drawings, Children's Creative Centre Playground, Canadian Federal Pavilion, Expo '67, Montréal, Québec, circa 1967
• AP075.S1.1965.PR01.019, Working drawing, Children's Creative Centre Playground, Canadian Federal Pavilion, Expo '67, Montréal, Québec, circa 1967
• AP075.S1.1965.PR01.020, Working drawings, Children's Creative Centre Playground, Canadian Federal Pavilion, Expo '67, Montréal, Québec, 1965-1966
• AP075.S1.1965.PR01.021, Working drawings, Children's Creative Centre Playground, Canadian Federal Pavilion, Expo '67, Montréal, Québec, 1965
• AP075.S1.1965.PR01.022, Working drawings and presentation drawing, Children's Creative Centre Playground, Canadian Federal Pavilion, Expo '67, Montréal, Québec, 1965-1966
• AP075.S1.1965.PR01.023, Presentation panel, Children's Creative Centre Playground, Canadian Federal Pavilion, Expo '67, Montréal, Québec, circa 1967
• AP075.S1.1965.PR01.024, Presentation drawings, Children's Creative Centre Playground, Canadian Federal Pavilion, Expo '67, Montréal, Québec, 1967 or before
• AP075.S1.1965.PR01.025, Correspondence with client, consultants and suppliers, Children's Creative Centre Playground, Canadian Federal Pavilion, Expo '67, Montréal, Québec , 1964-1966
• AP075.S1.1965.PR01.026, Publications on Expo '67, Children's Creative Centre Playground, Canadian Federal Pavilion, Expo '67, Montréal, Québec , circa 1967
• AP075.S1.1965.PR01.027, Canadian Design '67 catalogues for lamps, playground equipment, and street furnitures, Children's Creative Centre of the Canadian Federal Pavilion at Expo '67, Montréal, Québec, circa 1967