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From Maintenance to Care: Homemade Recipes for Retrofitting a 1930s Maison de colonisation in Rural Quebec

dc.contributor.authorGagnon, Emma
dc.contributor.copyright-releaseNot Applicable
dc.contributor.degreeMaster of Architecture
dc.contributor.departmentSchool of Architecture
dc.contributor.ethics-approvalNot Applicable
dc.contributor.external-examinerN/A
dc.contributor.manuscriptsNot Applicable
dc.contributor.thesis-readerCailen Pybus
dc.contributor.thesis-readerJoyce Hwang
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisorÉmélie Desrochers-Turgeon
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-24T18:05:12Z
dc.date.available2025-07-24T18:05:12Z
dc.date.defence2025-06-23
dc.date.issued2025-07-23
dc.descriptionEmmaGagnon2025
dc.description.abstractThis thesis advocates a care-centric approach to energy retrofits, challenging Quebec’s Rénoclimat program’s narrow emphasis on energy efficiency. While energy metrics are crucial, daily interactions, attentiveness, and maintenance by residents play a vital role in a home’s sustainability—yet are often overlooked. Focusing on Quebec’s 1930s maisons de colonisation, hastily built during an economic crisis to promote rural settlement, the project highlights how these modest structures have endured through decades of resident care. Reimagined through low-carbon “recipes,” the thesis offers hands-on strategies to improve energy performance, extend building lifespans, and preserve cultural meaning. These recipes are compiled in a cookbook—a familiar, playful format rooted in the kitchen, a core space of care, memory, and intergenerational transmission. By combining technical retrofitting with lived experience, this project envisions sustainability not as a checklist, but as a shared, ongoing practice of repair, adaptation, and care.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10222/85231
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectArchitecture
dc.subjectQuebec
dc.subjectRetrofit
dc.subjectCare
dc.subjectDomesticity
dc.titleFrom Maintenance to Care: Homemade Recipes for Retrofitting a 1930s Maison de colonisation in Rural Quebec

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