This project by Saucier Perrotte and Benoît Proulx architects wanted to insert "a temporal axis linking the banks from east to west while targeting Beauséjour Island. This axis symbolized the hierarchy established by the members of the colonization, that is to say the lord and the censors to the expression of the link between the profane and the sacred. Led by a poetic axial path, the intention of the project was to highlight the traces of the past and thus develop different devices contributing to it, such as platforms, molding, a center on stilts, etc. According to the architects, it was necessary "to express the taking possession of the territory by its occupants and thus to show the sequences of life in successive layers." Following a chronological order, the project unfolded in three stages: the arrival of the settlers, the colonization itself and the mutation of human activities due to industrialization. The axiality re-established the context of the events specific to the different historical periods. Within the interpretive center itself, "breakthroughs in the wall [were intended to target] specific locations of the 'locus' whose silk-screened glass [illustrated] paintings from the time of the frontier post between 1730 and 1758."
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The transformation of the site into a poetic promenade was of great interest to the jury; however, the overly discreet nature of the proposed route seemed inconsistent with the developers' goals. The building, for its part, appeared barely resolved architecturally.
(Taken from the brochure "Le centre d'interprétation Bourg de Pabos", coordinated and written by Odile Hénault)
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