The house is a place where significant cultural activities (both traditional and contemporary) are practiced, as are domestic activities necessary to support the comfortable lifestyle of large families and their visitors. In this project, the Inuit home is viewed as a repository of meaningful objects and practices, purposeful in maintaining values and in fulfilling aspirations in daily life.

The proposed Northern Home displays a well-connected pulaarvik where social and visual interactions are numerous and rich. Varying ceiling heights, places for sitting, views from one room to another, windows and thresholds all ease the transition from the more collective to the more introspective/intimate areas of the house.

This project integrates cultural practices within a contemporary design to highlight and celebrate Inuit know-how and way of life. The importance Inuit give to the objects that bear witness to their lives and stories is thus transposed in the architecture. By showcasing Inuit know-how with and within its very walls, the house effectively becomes a home.