Architect Pierre Thibault's project was intended to "embrace the historical reality in its entirety, taking as its anchor the void that its departure created. In this spirit, very close to the site, he wanted to give visitors the opportunity to make contact with the few remaining vestiges." In this project, the grid of the excavations became "the structuring framework of all the interventions built and [had] determined the anchor points on the site." The voids generated by the passage of time would not have been recreated in their entirety, but rather subject to observation from the interpretation center in order to discover new realities. The architectural intervention was minimal and similar to an archetypal reference, the fisherman's house. The bodies of the ancestral type of buildings were organized in this way, "perhaps in a way that was too rigid according to the jury", in order to offer a diversity of interstitial spaces and paths through the particular and visibly authentic places.
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The symbolic nature of the buildings' architecture intrigued some members of the jury, but the layout of the site and the proposed itinerary were disappointingly rigid. The development of a built element on the island also raised the interest of the jury. Overall, the concept presented was considered too static to meet the objectives of the promoter, who wanted to attract a well-defined tourist clientele to the site.
(Taken from the brochure "Le centre d'interprétation Bourg de Pabos", coordinated and written by Odile Hénault)
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