User:Jimpoir
Retired architect living in Baja, interested in the historical use of natural forms in architecture, especially polyhedrons and other non-rectangular solids with space-filling geometries like catalan solids After 2011, Poirier devoted himself solely to a non-profit project called "Hi-Tect", a series of proposed solutions to manufactured housing resilent to all natural disasters. Those are presented on a website . More recently, he has proposed an alternate athlete village ot he IOC for the Winter Games of 2022 to be held in Kazakhstan or China.
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Almaty, Kazakhstan. Athletes village housing for the 2017 Universiades and 20022 Games.
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Similar solution for eathquake-prone mountainside athlete housing.
Poirier's earlier career was in the snowmobile industry, having worked five years for three different manufacturers. His main employer Sno*Jet made him chief designer from 1971 to 1974. As such he designed around 20 models including the SabreJet and the ThunderJet shown here.