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Les architectes Faucher Aubertin Brodeur Gauthier (FABG)

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Centre de production et de diffusion culturelles de Carleton / Carleton Production and Cultural Centre

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GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE COMPETITOR

Competitor	Les architectes Faucher Aubertin Brodeur Gauthier
	www.arch-fabg.com

Manager	Éric Gauthier

Distinction	Winner
Doc. level	75%

Description

Scattered along the shores of the Baie des Chaleurs, a number of small towns are struggling to overcome the decline of an economy based on the exploitation of two vanishing natural resources, wood and fish. Increasing the quality of the cultural offer for tourists attracted by the beaches and warm waters of the Baie while improving the quality of the life for younger citizens tempted to quit is the strategy retained by two small communities that decided to combine their efforts and hold an architectural competition.
The aim was to regroup under one roof the municipal and collegial librairies, a small theater for the summer shows and touring musicians, an artist's center including workshops and gallery, a rehearsal room and a foyer for community meetings.

The narrowness of the available space between the church and the college led to an architectural parti based on the image of a pier stretching towards the sea. The picturesque nature of the built environment where buildings are loosely distributed along the sinuous road following the contour of the shore influenced the diagonal displacement of the second floor over the rez-de-chaussée. The front façade is frozen in an implied movement that is best appreciated while negociating the curve marking the entrance of the town. The lower part of the building will be ciadded with clay brick and the second floor box with galvalume steel. The roof structure will be a wood decking over parallam beams and marine plywood paneling will be used in the foyer.

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