Cet article propose un voyage à travers l’imaginaire des haltes routières québécoises. Chronotope de l’espace-temps territorial, la halte routière permet d’en saisir les dynamiques contextuelles, aussi bien culturelles, politiques, économiques que symboliques. Dix arrêts sur image d’un périple fait en 2021 couvrant le réseau gouvernemental complet sont présentés. Un imaginaire multiple se compose au fil des images hétérochroniques et hétérotopiques que ces architectures dessinent et fixent au paysage.

In This Is What We Do: A Muf Manual, the partners of the firm muf architecture/art wrote that ‘paradoxically, in order to make the thing the collaboration has to be about the making of the relationship rather than the object.’1 This article takes this assertion as its basis and examines the implications of treating the individual and collective relationships that structure an architectural project – which I will refer to as the project’s relational field – as a site that can be manipulated in order to affect both production and outcome. This is achieved through the transposition of concepts from Mikhail Bakhtin’s work on creative activity, art, literature, and language to design using a case study of muf’s Barking Town Square project in London (2004–10).