Strategic Planning in Ascot Corner

Ascot Corner is a town near the City of Sherbrooke in Quebec that is facing unorganized development, a highway that divides the village core. We were initially mandated to offer a redesign of the Route 112. The mandate for this project started with the Route 112 however after our analysis and situational, we expanded out mandate into devising a concept and strategic development plan for the village. We identified Ascot Corner’s biophysical environment as one of its greatest strengths and that development was comprimising this strength. We thus anchored our plan on the municipality’s organic centre at the intersection of the Saint-François River and the vales of two tributary streams and then propoed a set of strategies for the village’s growth. Based on how the residents, visitors, and the built environment could experience the landscape, we propsed a village identity is charactarized by three facets and developed strategies to reinfoce the each of these facets. The project was a collaboration with Louis-Etienne Couture, Simon Mammone, Jannat Nain and Mathile Prud’homme