Paloma Castonguay-Rufino is a doctoral student in architecture at the Université de Montréal, interested in the challenges of conservation and rehabilitation of built heritage. With a bachelor’s and master’s degree in architecture from Université de Montréal, Paloma is convinced that contemporary architecture is relevant when it engages in a dialogue of reinterpretation of what is “already there”. She completed her internship with a firm specializing in heritage conservation, where she was trained in traditional construction techniques, particularly masonry. Paloma is currently exploring various heritage-related issues as part of a thesis entitled “The rehabilitation project as support for a comparative and objective method for assessing the heritage value of industrial architecture in a Canadian context”. In this research, she postulates that some of the objectives of sustainable development are cross-cultural frameworks conducive to a better definition of industrial heritage, in the light of European theoretical and conceptual methods.
Thesis project title: The Rehabilitation Project as a Support for a Comparative Method of Objectifying the Heritage Value of Industrial Architecture in the Canadian Context