Canadian studio Appareil Structure has created a picket, light-filled mountain home with a single-pitch roof in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec.
Generally known as Résidence des Rapides, the three-bedroom home is partially embedded in a sloped four-acre website on the banks of the Diable River within the Laurentian Mountains.
Montreal-based Appareil Structure accomplished the cedar-clad home in 2023, knowledgeable by the studio’s earlier design of its Piloti bench couch with uncovered joints and absence of {hardware}.
“Via its uncovered stable wooden construction, the Résidence des Rapides creates a coherent, seen language, on the crossroads between object and structure,” founding architect Kim Pariseau advised Dezeen.
The group designed the home with a daring kind that expresses its construction. It has a monumental roof that overhangs as much as eight toes (2.4 metres) in some locations to kind coated passageways round the home and a 15-foot-high (4.5 metres) cathedral ceiling inside.
“We needed to present the roof a way of lightness, virtually floating above the home,” Marc-Olivier Champagne-Thomas, an affiliate architect at Appareil Structure, mentioned.
“We intentionally averted using lateral columns for its help, opting as an alternative for an built-in method the place the physique of the construction and that of the roof are harmoniously linked collectively, becoming like items of furnishings.”
The roof is raised on a colonnade of rectangular picket columns from the floor-to-ceiling glazing on the south facet.
“The home has two distinct facades: a bashful, timid facet overlooking the entry path, and one other, opening onto the again, revealing the magnificence of the panorama,” the group mentioned.
On the principle higher stage, the nook entry results in an open-plan lounge, eating room, and kitchen.
The first bed room and toilet maintain one finish of the plan, whereas the opposite consists of a coated veranda with outside eating house.
The partitions of the first bed room do not lengthen all the way in which to the roof to keep up “a sense of openness and fluidity, reinforcing the house’s sense of house and luminosity.”
The bottom ground – which is ready midway into the hillside and as near the river as attainable – accommodates a lounge, dwelling theatre and two bedrooms that every look out to a coated outside passageway and spa, the place residents can hear the mild sound of the flowing water.
The interiors are clad in purple oak panelling and wooden flooring, whereas porcelain counter tops and ceramic tiles present a cool juxtaposition to the pure wooden.
“Past protecting the surfaces with wooden, we needed to work with this noble materials in all its variety, utilizing its structural properties for the framework, taking part in with its nuances to create a singular exterior language, and diffusing its heat in each nook and cranny of the home,” Champagne-Thomas mentioned.
Beforehand, Appareil Structure designed a dental clinic to “really feel like somebody’s dwelling” and up to date a minimal Nineteen Sixties dwelling with a minimal palette, each in Montreal.
The images is by Félix Michaud.
Undertaking credit:
Contractors: Fairfiled development, Larix Building
Cabinetmaker: Roland Grenier Building, Daniel Casaubon
Home windows: Alumilex
Lightings: Luminaire Authentik
Kitchen stools: Appareil Atelier
