Brussels-based architect Aude-Line Dulière has won the Harvard Graduate School of Design‘s 2018 Wheelwright Prize, the large travel and research grant for emerging architects. Dulière’s winning proposal, Crafted Images: Materials Flow, Techniques, and Reuses in Set Construction Design, investigates the supply chain and construction methods in the film industry to investigate potential avenues for adaptive reuse that can be applied to the AEC industry, as well.

“Aude-Line’s work demonstrates a sophisticated vision of spatial quality in a variety of forms that translates into her interest in the architecture of set design,” said Harvard GSD Dean Mohsen Mostafavi. “By exploring material reuse strategies at the intersection of film, construction, and architecture, Aude-Line’s project offers exciting possibilities for innovative approaches to sustainability, infused with an equally important and very sensitive consideration of aesthetic beauty.”

Dulière, who holds an M.Arch from the GSD and works as an architect and movie production design assistant in Europe, was selected from a pool of five finalists for the fellowship. She will use the Wheelwright’s $100,000 travel and research stipend to deepen the ideas set forth in Crafted Images.

Here’s what Dulière had to say about her process:

“The movie industry has the potential to offer clues for streamlining material flows and offers opportunities for experimentation on sustainability for contemporary architectural practice,” she said in a prepared statement.

In addition to Mostafavi, Edward Eigen, K. Michael Hays, and the newly-appointed chair of GSD’s architecture school, Mark Lee, this year’s jury included Frida Escobedo, Michelle Wilkinson, and Jose Ahedo, the 2014 winner. Last year, Chilean architect Samuel Bravo won the Wheelwright Prize for his work on informal settlements across the globe.

More information on Dulière’s project proposal will be posted on the award’s website shortly.