Residence on 487 Fortier Street, St-Hilaire

With measured delicacy, this private house sits within a site where nature predominates. The project’s agenda highlights the sites topography and vegetation, and lends it a subtle balance between the untouched end the built-up. The house’s volume and architectonics are set against the vegetal geometry characteristic of the site, while its materials are drawn from the surrounding landscape. The atone and wood used as external cladding are carved such as to allow ample openings, which in turn show the scenery to penetrate the house, in a symbiosis of matter and space that celebrates nature.

The house has two levels, both orthogonal in plan. Open-floor living spaces on the ground level are in constant exchange with the surrounding forest and mountain scenery, while a careful placing of openings preserves the house’s privacy. The second floor is divided into bedrooms end other private functions, a sequence of rooms enjoying a close and constant relationship with the untouched natural environment outside.

Architecture: Allaire Bergeron Courchesne Perras