Florence Lacroix, “Ta maison Rétrécit” (Your House is Shrinking)

JURY COMMENT

Florence’s research project addresses a real-world challenge facing many ecologically sensitive coastal areas that serve as economic generators from tourism. Coastal issues, due to climate change, leave dunes at risk as they are extremely sensitive to global waterway changes taking place. This project is vital as it combines the role that architecture and planning can have in mitigating damage to these very sensitive ecological areas. Florence’s proposal to uncover a design intervention that balances economic and ecological needs has the potential to be replicable in other parts of Canada or elsewhere. This project balances community, tourism and economic realities beautifully.