La Baie, Quebec, Canada

Following the floods that ravaged the Musée du Fjord in 1996, the museum authorities reoriented the vocation of the exhibition center to become an interpretation center of the Bay environment according to four themes: "Heritage district of the Sagamie, a fascinating fjord, the presence of industry and a place for local people". The project had to propose a solution for the interior redevelopment of the existing museum and for an addition that would allow the museum to fully assume its new function.

The competition organizers therefore aimed to improve the existing building through an intervention that would nevertheless be modest. The challenge was to achieve a more functional and flexible interior organization while creating a warm and pleasant interior. The circulation system of the existing complex also had to be rethought. Interestingly, in the first phase of the competition, the program specified that the museum administration was "open to innovative solutions to traditional museum approaches."

(From competition program)

(Unofficial automated translation)