Harvard University Graduate School of Design (Harvard GSD) has announced Brussels-based architect Aude-Line Dulière as the winner of the 2018 Wheelwright Prize. The $100,000 fellowship supports travel-based research and investigative approaches to contemporary design.Dulière won the prize for her “Crafted Images: Materials Flow, Techniques, and Reuses in Set Construction Design” proposal to examine film-set construction, given its cyclical and fast-paced nature, as the “ideal incubator for testing innovative practices of material reuse.”Dulière will be visiting a variety of film sets in Germany, Russia, Hungary, the United Kingdom, China, Hong Kong, India, Nigeria, and other countries to research material reuse strategies for the film industry, with a focus on applications for commercial building and contemporary architecture practice. “The movie industry has the potential to offer clues for streamlining material reuse protocols and offers opportunities for experimentation on sustainability for contemporary architectural practice,” Dulière writes. She also aims to find solutions to reduce waste within the film industry as she asks: “How much waste for an image?”Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean and Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design at Harvard GSD, says: “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. 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 holds a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard GSD and previously studied in Brussels at the Institut Superieur d’Architecture La Cambre and at Sint-Lucas (KU Leuven). Dulière has worked as an architect and film-production design assistant since 2003. She was a designer at David Chipperfield Architects between 2010 and 2015 and later at Rotor Deconstruction in Brussels, which focuses on material flows in the construction industry.Dulière is also a member of the British Film Design Guild, and a board member of the Brussels-based space La Loge, dedicated to contemporary art, architecture, and theory.http://www.blouinartinfo.com/                            Founder: Louise Blouin  Read more