Categorie du projet: Single family

The interior of a duplex in the Villeray borough is restored and optimized.

To conserve the best aspects of this post-war worker housing: this is what a young family asked their architect. The wood floors and almost all of the walls and original plaster mouldings have been restored. A series of targeted modifications helped to bring light and a modern feel to the home: a new pantry-wall in the kitchen, sliding doors to the hallway and a serving hatch in the dining room.

The bathroom has been expanded underneath the existing skylight dividing it with the bath on one side and a large storage wall on the other. Cascading onto the natural quartz ceramic, the overhead light provides a welcoming depth in this tiny space. A small playroom in the basement covered with birch wood ceiling and fibre board walls created a pleasant refuge for the kids.

The basement of a family duplex in the Ahuntsic neighborhood is completely refurbished.

By focusing the services in the front part of the basement, a large, open and bright room was freed up. At the foot of the stairs, the mechanics of the house are concealed by a series of sliding doors, while a washer, dryer and storage cabinet line the hall, leading towards the family room. At once a TV room and playroom, this vast space with its solid oak floors is lined with a linear cloakroom and is covered with slate, which leads to the garage as would a wide driveway.

A fiveplex of La Petite Patrie in Montreal is expanding on the third floor.

The large steel beam makes it possible to open up the entire floor and to expose the ceiling made of rough hemlock boards. The space is divided into three distinct boxes in which the various services are grouped: wardrobe, bathroom and staircase. The expansion, on the courtyard side opens onto a small private deck, thus making the client’s poetic vision a reality.

A spectacular country house is built on the mountainside in the Laurentians.

Built against the side of a cliff a dozen feet high, the garage functions as a transition between the mountainous landscape and the house. Its flat, concrete, vegetated roof welcomes the visitor to the second floor, while sheltering the owner’s car on the ground floor, incorporating the residence’s two main accesses. Oriented toward the lake to the north, the house is developed lengthwise, beginning with the entrance and moving through the kitchen, dining room and living room. This layout maximizes the intake of direct, natural light, and preserves the views of the lake. The whole is topped with a sheet metal roof whose sections connect on two levels that follow the topography like a break in the landscape.

Two floors of an old triplex are linked by a new staircase in Little Italy in Montreal.

Decompartmentalizing this apartment in Little Italy brought in more daylight. The wall separating the two dwellings is fully opened onto the staircase, with a small folding door made of solid birch recessed into the wall folding door. Above the door, a dropped wood ceiling houses six small built-in halogen lamps highlighting this central architectural element between the two apartments: the rotula.

A wall unit transforms an apartment with its extra bed, wardrobes, secretary and shelves.

The two small wardrobes are installed on each side of the wall-mounted single bed. Three pocket doors close off the desk which is mounted on a serie of drawers. Two large shelves complete this large integrated unit, made of oak with walnut trim linking the various elements.

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.