Winner 2024 — Camille Lefebvre 

Based in Tio'tia:ke/Montreal, Camille Lefebvre is an architect with a multidisciplinary practice at the crossroads of two main axes: housing in density and issues of architectural representation in the digital age. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from the Université de Montréal and is the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships. She was a finalist for the Canada Council's Prix de Rome in Architecture (Emerging Practitioners). 

Her research and creation project at the Foundation in June 2024 aims to take a critical and constructive look at the sprawl of Quebec's towns and villages. Taking the Grantham Foundation and nearby villages as a starting point, the project is part of a desire to sensitively densify Quebec's urban fabric, caught between the housing crisis and the climate emergency. These issues will be addressed by the model as a vector of research-creation with a dual function: as an act of design and as a mediation tool for a wider public. 

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2023 Winners — Sébastien Roy and Jérémie Dussault-Lefebvre

Originally from Montreal, Sébastien Roy and Jérémie Dussault-Lefebvre shared university studies in Montreal (BAC) and Vancouver (M.ARCH), followed by professional experiences in Europe (Berlin, Milan, Brussels). Having imagined, designed, built and published projects together in Canada and abroad, Sébastien and Jérémie naturally decided to establish themselves as official collaborators following their repeated partnerships. Their stay abroad has allowed them to multiply their learning, particularly during their time at institutions such as TU Delft, the Porto Academy, the University of Nairobi and the University of Malta.

Using the Foundation building as an object of study during their residency and following a two-stage approach (inventory and recomposition), the duo aim to privilege a methodology of prospecting and producing alternative visions of the site, as if they were proposing to "deconstruct" and "reconstruct" the pavilion. With a view to environmental exhaustion, working with the existing building, its surroundings and heritage is at the heart of their audacious proposal.