Pierre

St-Pierre-Joly is a vibrant rural Francophone community that is renowned for its annual Frog Follies celebration.  This competition winning outdoor performance stage was designed to augment its existing fairgrounds – for both annual frog jumping and other events.  A long steel-caged gabion wall, filled with local fieldstones, supports a massive roof canopy assembled from tapered prefab glulam beams – more typically used as hydro poles – topped with rusting Corten steel panels.  The wall splits the stage in two, with the smaller backstage area geared to host more intimate performances for handfuls of patrons.  A crescent shaped earth berm encircles the stage, creating an enclosed zone with raked, grassy seating.

with Rachael Alpern