The genesis of the project is based on the following three premises: the historical development of the museum since its foundation, the existing buildings and the place that this heritage occupies in Gaspésie. The museum, as it was conceived in its physical environment as well as in its historical evolution, must keep its identity in spite of the new interventions to which it will be subjected to update it. Moreover, the museum, which has been placed on the siding since the raising of Highway 132, will have to resume its signage function as a cultural focal point for the Gaspé Peninsula. It is by creating an axis from the Jacques-Cartier monument, located at the north-western end, which extends through the current hall of the museum towards an observation loggia on Forillon and the Gaspé coast that this transformation will take place. With a single stroke, this axis, which takes its source in history to project itself into the future, becomes in a way an incubator of the future.
(From specialized magazine)
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The architectural approach and spatial organization of the project, particularly the transparency of the Cultural Hall, its continuity and its openness to the Bay of Gaspé, attracted the attention of the jury. The clarity of the planning and the connection between the extension and the existing building accurately reflect the understanding of the program. However, the articulated volumetry does not seem to enhance the planning and simplicity of use. The plasticity of the project presents a richness of reading relevant to the museum institution, notably through the analogy with the forms of the Gaspé landscape.
(From specialized magazine)
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