Native studio DKA Architects has designed a white wood-clad dwelling with three related gables in Terrebonne, Quebec, simply outdoors of Montreal.
Set inside a big manicured garden, the Comtois Residence was accomplished in 2022 by DKA, a mid-sized studio based in 2009 in close by Biosbriand.
The 6,835-square-foot (635-square-metre) dwelling consists of three gabled bars organized in a brief H-shape.
“The design was usually impressed by the vernacular language of the agricultural panorama based mostly on the origins of the location and its environment,” the studio stated.
The volumes had been organized based mostly on website orientation, program and spatial relationships that enable the house’s circulation to be fluid and symmetrical.
The vertical, white-wood cladding and standing-seam metallic roof reference regional agrarian buildings, however with up to date refinement.
“Accordingly, the sunshine monochromatic dwelling helps to emphasise and recognize the pure colors of the location and its environment,” the studio stated.
“Moreover, a beneficiant setback from the road reduces the noise and improves the extent of privateness. Because of this, the house turns into in symbiosis with nature and panorama.”
The discrete entrance is marked by a protruding flat roof tucked into the nook between two gables.
The gable to the fitting of the doorway features a hid storage and a big lined patio with ceramic flooring and a hearth that’s open to a yard with a big pool.
The crossbar gable – with an arcade of huge home windows on both aspect – accommodates the household areas with an open plan kitchen, eating and residing area underneath a vaulted ceiling.
The opposite finish gable holds three bedrooms and a staircase that descends to the basement degree with two extra bedrooms and a media area.
On the inside, variations in ceiling peak assist outline areas by varied scales, however the white partitions and ceilings and heat hardwood flooring create continuity all through the home.
The bedrooms steadiness privateness and consider by minimalist punched home windows, a up to date reinterpretation of basic farmhouse home windows.
“Each quantity of the house was designed in accordance with the time of day and the solar path,” the studio stated. “Because of this, the inside areas get hold of high quality views and obtain an abundance of sunshine all through the day.”
The shopper’s household lived in an present dwelling on the property whereas the Comtois Residence was constructed, pushing the home again additional within the website and giving it privateness and noise discount from the road. The unique home was later demolished.
Picket gabled homes aren’t unusual within the space, because the pitched roof helps shed snow every winter. Additionally in Quebec, Atelier Pierre Thibault constructed a guesthouse with two offset gables and Pelletier de Fontenay took the idea a step additional for a house with three steep gabled types.
The images is by Josée Marino.
Challenge credit:
Architect: DKA Architects
Suppliers: Fabelta, Maibec, Montréal Brique et Pierre, Revêtement RM Lussier
Panorama: Status Paysage
