Local prefabrication could be a year-long, off-site construction strategy—and job opportunity—for an Inuit labour force with seasonal lifestyles. Prefab factories and/or workshops could train and empower young apprentices in a controlled, comfortable, safe, well-equipped environment, thus leading to fulfilling employment, creative initiatives, and a greater sense of responsibility and pride.

Building according to modular and standardized components offers innovative ways to adapt housing to the evolving context of Inuit households. Being able to add rooms incrementally fulfills the often-expressed need for more space for when a new member is welcomed into the family or for creating art/making crafts or preparing country food. In the Inuit way, cabins are simply built to allow for easy extensions and transformations.

A home is made of personalized rooms whose number, function, size, and interconnections are chosen (and transformed) by its occupants. “Evolutive” homes could help curb the currently on-going unfair house exchanges. When the space is not yet needed or used, storing prefabricated add-ons or modules in the village could provide temporary support and autonomy for those without a home.

Modular dwellings also contribute to saving heating costs by enabling the shutting off of unused spaces. Like the traditional illuit, the goal is to use on-site resources to design dwellings that are better adapted to their users.