This community design project explores the potential for a future extension of Inukjuak on the opposite shore of the Innuksuak River, a place of significance in local collective memory. It proposes a new residential area strongly linked to the land and the landscape. An innovative yet flexible system of “branches” consists of semi-detached houses arranged on a shared and continuous wood platform which conceals services (water provision/collection by gravity).

Each family has direct access to the land near the house to do activities, such as berry picking. A minimum number of streets on pads helps preserve the land (and save gravel) and encourage walking or travel with ATVs and skidoos.

A new bridge connects both sides of the village near existing services (school, grocery store, clinic, NV). The river and its edges remain accessible as a unifying and meaningful collective space for the entire community.