Inuit Architecture

Arctic Architecture - Paleo-Eskimo and Neo-Eskimo Houses

Ancient Arctic architecture demonstrates remarkable environmental efficiency through three key sustainability practices that have endured for generations. First, Inuit dwellings utilize locally sourced materials like snow, turf, and animal hides, eliminating the need for long-distance material transportation and greatly reducing the environmental impact of construction.

Arctic architecture. Blouin Orzes architectes has spent decades working to understand the needs of Inuit communities in the Canadian north. March 18, 2020. Until the 1950s, many Inuit communities were semi-nomadic, building their own dwellings out of snow and animal skins as they moved around in pursuit of game. quotThe whole context there

Origins. The early Inuit winter house was a sophisticated structure, built partially into the ground. It was designed to provide comfort and warmth for prolonged periods of indoor living, often over the course of several years. The early Inuit built their winter house with whatever materials could be found principally stone, earth, moss and whalebones, but sometimes also driftwood and sod.

Critical knowledge surrounding Inuinnait architecture has begun to be lost. As reliance on western housing increased, so have the social and wellness issues related to living in them. The houses being built in our communities are often high cost, overcrowded, made with low-grade materials, and have designs unsuited to our cultural lifestyle.

Lee, Molly and Greg A. Reinhardt 2003 Eskimo Architecture Dwelling and Structure in the Early Historic Period, University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks. Keywords architecture and design, Circumpolar North, seasonal patterns of activity Lee and Reinhardt provide illustrations and descriptions of the architecture of the Inuit peoples of Alaska Yup'ik, Inupiaq, and Alutiiq, Canada Inuit

But Inuit technologies are not lost or forgotten Today, many young Indigenous people of the North are reclaiming their heritage while seeking a more resilient future. One is Kylik Kisoun Taylor, who had been running Tundra North Tours from the village of Inuvik for more than a decade when the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

The semisubterranean whale-bone house is one of the most recognizable aspects of Thule Inuit culture. Following their arrival in the Canadian Arctic approximately 1,000 years ago, Thule peoples built these impressive and often enigmatic dwellings for occupation during the long winter months.

A lack of safe and affordable housing threatens the health and well-being of thousands of Inuit living in Canada. But the construction of an energy-efficient, culturally mindful home could break ground on finding new Inuit-led solutions to the housing crisis. from Montreal-based architecture firm EVOQ and the North's go-to guy when it

The relationship between the architecture industry and the development of Inuit Nunangat is critical to understand for Inuit sovereignty. The Arctic is often seen as a quotnew canvasquot and a new opportunity or adventure for architects to establish themselves and their work, but for Inuit it is their homeland.