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Musée régional de Rimouski

Stage 1

Dupuis et LeTourneux, architectes (Winner)

Charlebois, Plante, Prochazka

Saucier et Perrotte, architectes (Saucier+Perrotte) / Ewan Branda / Franck Thonon

La Société d'architecture Rousseau et Fortin / Alain Carle architecture / Martine Hubert / Marie Lestage

Pierre Thibault, architecte / Chantal Douville / Eric Thibodeau

winner

Dupuis et LeTourneux, architectes

GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE COMPETITION

Year	1992
Location	35, rue St-Germain Ouest Rimouski, Quebec, Canada
Stage	One stage
Competitors	5

Surface area (m²)	1202 m²
Initial project cost	825,000 $

Client	Corporation du Musée Régional de Rimouski
Professional advisor	Odile Hénault
Doc. level	75%

Description

Launched in 1992 by the Corporation du Musée régional de Rimouski, this competition concerned the planning of a contemporary project that would revitalize the precarious state of the Musée régionale de Rimouski, inaugurated in 1972. This museum housed in an old parish church constructed from 1823 to 1824, had numerous technical problems including the obsolescence of its museological equipment, the significant deterioration of the building's exterior envelope and the structure's non-conformity to building codes. Combined, these issues required immediate attention and demanded an inevitable building rehabilitation. The church's volume and various openings meant that the project would be far from simple, as it involved the incorporation of a museological function within a building designed for an entirely different use. In launching this competition, the museum wished to remedy the existing conflict between the architectonic development of the institution and the conservation of the church: itself an artefact belonging to the museum's collection. For the museum, a provincial architectural competition seemed an appropriate means to obtain ideas regarding the building's future.

Jury comments

List of Competitors

Competition staff and jury

Jury	France Gascon, Conservateur(rice)
	François Lachapelle, Directeur général
	Luc Ferdinand Laporte, Architecte
	Benoit Proulx, Architecte
	Peter Rose, Architecte

Calendar

Press Review

Articles de Presse :
Le Soleil 12-07-1992
Le Soleil 10-09-1992
Le Soleil 03-12-1992

Revues spécialisées :
ARQ #68, août 1992

List of general documents

(not accessible)

Communiqué de presse
Programme
Pamphlet résumé
Questions et réponses
Programme
Rapport du jury (global)
Article de presse
Article de presse
Article de presse
Programme
Lettre

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