A prefabricated new floor is added to a shoebox in Montreal’s Rosemont borough.
The 800-square foot prefabricated floor is mounted onto the existing plank lumber main floor. This construction technique makes it possible to assemble the structure and the insulation in less than five days. The second story accommodates three bedrooms and one bathroom. A screen of wood panelling made from eastern cedar breaks the clay brick mass into two symmetrical fragments, allowing more light to come in. The wood sheathing acts as a sunshade for the rooms, and as the main entrance porch.
A walnut claustra hides a stair in a house on the North Shore of Montreal.
The slatted shutter is composed of twelve 1″x6″ white walnut boards. The spindle-shaped cross-sections of each element as well as their hidden anchor emphasize their verticality.
Two upper levels of a Villeray triplex in Montreal merge.
Feeling their 800 ft2 Villeray apartment was too small for their growing family, the owners wanted to reorganize the living spaces. In order to draw in natural light, the living spaces were relocated by the windows and linked together by a maple plywood drop ceiling and a two-toned slate tiling. The office opens onto the dining room through frosted glass panels, framed by a structure made of recovered wood.
A mezzanine-desk is built in a loft bordering the Lachine Canal in Montreal.
In this narrow loft bordering the Lachine Canal, sitting the mezzanine above the corridor created a surprising viewpoint onto the living room. The working area is supported by a steel blade structure braced with recovered oak doors. A laser-cut Russian plywood balustrade frames the mezzanine, suggestive of an opera hall loggia.
The kitchen of a single-family home in Montreal’s Mile-End is getting a fresh new look.
The linear orientation of the countertops extends the kitchen to the threshold of the dining room. Housing the sink and stove, the long quartz anthracite countertop visually wraps the kitchen cabinets to the fridge. The massive oak counter cantilevered on a fine stainless steel structure creates a large working area with a view of the dining room. The overhead bar completes this project.
A triplex in Montreal’s Verdun neighborhood becomes a single-family home.
This old triplex located on Fifth Avenue in Verdun lacked light and space. By adding a staircase linking two floors and changing its orientation, the architects opened up the space and let in light, lightening the heart of the new home. A large modular bookcase surrounds the pale birch staircase which gives access to the renovated bedrooms and bathrooms.
Couple builds a hemp dream house with cedar shingles in Lanaudière.
Seated in a clearing of the Laurentian Mountains, the house has an unobstructed view of the lake, permitting the use of passive solar heating. A showcase of high-end technologies (radiant heating and air exchange system, natural and high-performance materials such as balloon frame, cedar siding roof and hempcrete), this project is bursting with ecological qualities.
A new oak kitchen transforms a typical Plateau Mont-Royal housing in Montreal.
The architects brought together the pantry, stove, and fridge into a large oak service wall, creating enough space to fit a long solid oak counter. Breaking through a vertical slab, the counter invites the kitchen’s space to flow into the dining room.
The first hemp residence in Canada is being built in the Eastern Townships.
First of its kind in North America, this house is almost entirely built of hemp. Located in the Eastern Townships, it extends over more than 2,000 square feet. The main stair servicing the three bedrooms is built around a central masonry heater, finished with rammed earth. To reduce the environmental impact of the project, the architects implemented the following strategies: continuous hemp insulation, shallow foundations, radiant slab, passive solar heating, composting toilet and rainwater harvesting.
A suspended wooden bed thrills a loft near the Lachine Canal in Montreal.
Levitation. The bed’s fir plywood slab follows the sinuous curves of its tubular steel structure, floating above the cradle. Illuminated by an opalescent storage wall and by neon light bouncing off bricks, the space thus created embodies lightness.
