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1st Avenue Residence is a project designed by Architecture Microclimat. This new sun-filled home is part of Montreal’s urban narrative yet offers all the advantages of a residential community. Photography by Adrien Williams.
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Montreal’s residential neighbourhoods, densely sowed throughout the 20th century, are interspersed with tiny homes, strewn here and there in the urban landscape. When these buildings are left behind and go on sale, they offer architects a new playground to explore their work, to find creative ways to integrate a contemporary lifestyle in more traditional streets at the heart of the city.
The clients, a couple with two children, noticed this abandoned property on 1st Avenue. Facing a neighbourhood park in Rosemont, an area prized for its green spaces and tight-knit community, it was the perfect setting for a new build. With its anthracite-coloured brick facade and discrete openings, including a slightly elevated double entrance that allows natural light to brighten up a lower-level rental unit and create a modulated yard, the new home coolly inserts itself into the neighbourhood.
As you step foot through the door, your eye is drawn to the back of the home, where the kitchen and living spaces extend outside thanks to impressive windows that frame the backyard. A kitchen counter naturally flows onto the terrace, visually and concretely uniting the two spaces. Cantilever overhangs in white parging shelter the counter from the elements throughout the seasons and offer a signature look to the back of the building.
The fluid transition from one space to the next continues throughout the home with a double height open space. United by a central wooden stairway and glass railing, it invites even more natural light into the home. The white walls and ceilings, as well as the polished concrete floors brighten up the space, whereas the wood paneling on the stairway adds warmth to the minimalist design, and draws the eye up the stairs to the bedrooms.
The modern home inserts itself respectfully within the traditional Montreal neighbourhood that welcomes it. The architects’ work reflects a movement to artfully transform the residential landscape, a devotedness to make the most of open space and natural light. As such, the 1st Avenue home is one with the exterior, rather than being closed off on itself against the sun, rain, wind, and snow–always present, but better controlled.
Data Sheet:
Architect: Architecture Microclimat
Structural engineer: Geniex
General contractor: Microclimat architecture et construction
Square footage: 3900 SF
Project end date: 2016
Photographer: Adrien Williams
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Phénix House, Montréal
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Phénix House in Montréal, Quebec
3 Mar 2021
Phénix House
Architects: Appareil Architecture
Location: Montréal, Québec, Canada
Phénix House: Appareil Architecture is Inspired by the Mixing of Cultures to Renovate a Montreal House
With the Phénix House, APPAREIL Architecture adds its signature to a bright and harmonious space, where the path unfolds in softness. With attention to even the smallest of details, the renovation of this Montreal duplex manages to make different styles cohabitate, creating a project in the likeness of its clients.
Following a fire, the owners wished to refurbish their 2600 square foot residence in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighborhood. On the program: opening up the ground floor space, optimizing the openings onto the back garden, maximizing natural light, and furbishing the basement and second floor to respond to the family’s needs.
Contrasting spaces
The project’s identity was inspired by the mingling of cultures between this couple of European and Asian heritage. The home finds a balance between a blend of influences, styles, and materials.
The kitchen was bespoke to respond to the clients’ desire to have a professional, bullet-proof kitchen, that could host and respond to the whole family’s needs. At its heart, an enormous island renders the space functional and full of character. Made of stainless steel, it contributes to an industrial aesthetic that contrasts with the white and the residential wood surrounding it, bringing a balance between a cold and a warmer physicality to the space. With the aim of creating a friendly and bright space, the opening onto the back garden has been highlighted.
A sequenced path
On the ground floor, if all the spaces are open onto one another, they are discovered as you progress through the path. Wood-paneled screens of Japanese influence punctuate the sequences and create rich sub-spaces that simultaneously dissimulate and reveal. The spaces between the wooden slats and the floor’s grating contribute to the home’s light play.
The central staircase plays an important role: it is the link between the spaces. While segmenting the kitchen and the living room without completely sealing them off, it creates a connection between the levels and adds movement. It was left open to allow the light from the light shaft to cut across all levels down to the basement. Its steel, wood, and glass materiality bring clarity to space while reinforcing the connection between the different rooms.
A bespoke design
One of the project’s main components is its integrated furniture, situated on the ground floor. A hybrid space, it answers the family’s need for storage and for office space in the living area. APPAREIL Architecture created wooden furnishings with horizontal lines that host a couch, a desk, a buffet, and storage spaces. An elegant and efficient design that cleverly optimizes the space.
Everything in the project was bespoke, from the chairs to the integrated furniture, through to the kitchen and the stairs. From there emerges a language coherent at all the levels of the project and a unique signature. An interior project all in finesse.
Phénix House in Montréal, Québec – Building Information
Interior Design Firm:Appareil Architecture
APPAREIL thanks its collaborators on this project:
Contractor : Paquet Construction
Cabinet maker : Kastella
About APPAREIL Architecture
APPAREIL Architecture is a Montreal-based firm whose mission is to design high quality, bespoke residential and commercial environments that are unique for their residents. Our clean and contemporary signature is greatly inspired by our Nordic roots, and our projects bear witness to our desire to find balance between tradition and modernity. In an effort to improve its sustainable development practice, the firm has obtained an ECO-RESPONSIBLE certification issued by Ecocert and participates in several mentoring programs such as Women4Climate.as well as Montreal’s Parcours Développement Durable.
Its work has been recognized and rewarded throughout the years. Among several distinctions, APPAREIL Architecture received the OAQ’s “Relève en Architecture 2020” award and the “Public’s Choice” award at the AZ AWARDS 2020, for the Le Dernier Petit Cochon project at the Reford Gardens. The firm was a double-laureate at the “Grands Prix du Design” awards in 2019 for the Pastel Rita project and the Floe chair. The firm was also the recipient of Canadian Interior’s “Best of Canada” prize in 2017 for the Hoogan & Beaufort restaurant, and was nominated for the “Emerging Talent” award by Canadian Architect in 2016.
Photographer : Félix Michaud
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Address: Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Architecture Microclimat builds minimal terrace house in traditional Montreal neighbourhood
This Montreal residence by local architecture firm Architecture Microclimat has a front designed to fit in with the area's style, while a more sculptural rear facade features an overhanging upper storey.
Architecture Microclimat built the First Avenue Residence for a young family, who had purchased the abandoned property in Rosemont – an old Montreal neighbourhood known for its green spaces and tight-knit community.
To create an understated presence within the historic area, the architects clad the entry facade in blue-grey brick.
Stairs from the street lead up to the slightly recessed threshold. Made of glass panes and light-coloured metal, the setback porch introduces the glazing and bright surfaces used across the rest of the residence.
The entry opens onto a hallway, partitioned from an adjacent lounge by closets along the plan's midline. The passage leads directly to a kitchen and dining space, where a row of floor-to-ceiling glass panes reveal a rear garden.
The white ceiling and walls, the counters striding the room's east edge, and the polished concrete floors all pass through the glazing onto the rear porch.
"As you step foot through the door, your eye is drawn to the back of the home, where the kitchen and living spaces extend outside thanks to impressive windows that frame the backyard," the architects said.
"A kitchen counter naturally flows onto the terrace, visually and concretely uniting the two spaces."
The architects cantilevered part of the second storey to provide shelter for the back terrace. The overhanging volume creates a sculptural contrast to the modest front facade.
The glazing along the south wall is set an an angle, creating a break from the otherwise rectilinear form and enhancing the facade's faceted appearance.
Inside the home, Architecture Microclimat supplemented the reflective white surfaces and concrete floors with mid-toned wood to "add warmth to the minimalist design".
A wood-panelled staircase leads through a double-height space at the northwest corner. The firm intended the aperture to help enhance continuity between the two levels, as well as to help brighten the interior.
"The fluid transition from one space to the next continues throughout the home with a double height open space," the firm said. "United by a central wooden stairway and glass railing, it invites even more natural light into the home."
The home also features a basement level, which the architects designed as a rentable unit per the client's request.
Entry to the underground apartment is situated on the front porch, adjacent to main home's threshold. A light-well along the street-facing facade helps to provide natural light to the lower space, while a rear exit provides access to the garden.
Terraced homes are prominent among the old neighbourhoods of Montreal. Other recent similar projects include a house merged together from two flats, and a compact house featuring a split-level interior by La Shed.
Photography is by Adrien Williams.
Project credits:
Architect: Architecture Microclimat
Structural engineer: Geniex
General contractor: Microclimat architecture et construction
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Architecture Microclimat builds minimal terrace house in traditional Montreal neighbourhood
This Montreal residence by local architecture firm Architecture Microclimat has a front designed to fit in with the area's style, while a more sculptural rear facade features an overhanging upper storey.
Architecture Microclimat built the First Avenue Residence for a young family, who had purchased the abandoned property in Rosemont – an old Montreal neighbourhood known for its green spaces and tight-knit community.
To create an understated presence within the historic area, the architects clad the entry facade in blue-grey brick.
Stairs from the street lead up to the slightly recessed threshold. Made of glass panes and light-coloured metal, the setback porch introduces the glazing and bright surfaces used across the rest of the residence.
The entry opens onto a hallway, partitioned from an adjacent lounge by closets along the plan's midline. The passage leads directly to a kitchen and dining space, where a row of floor-to-ceiling glass panes reveal a rear garden.
The white ceiling and walls, the counters striding the room's east edge, and the polished concrete floors all pass through the glazing onto the rear porch.
"As you step foot through the door, your eye is drawn to the back of the home, where the kitchen and living spaces extend outside thanks to impressive windows that frame the backyard," the architects said.
"A kitchen counter naturally flows onto the terrace, visually and concretely uniting the two spaces."
The architects cantilevered part of the second storey to provide shelter for the back terrace. The overhanging volume creates a sculptural contrast to the modest front facade.
The glazing along the south wall is set an an angle, creating a break from the otherwise rectilinear form and enhancing the facade's faceted appearance.
Inside the home, Architecture Microclimat supplemented the reflective white surfaces and concrete floors with mid-toned wood to "add warmth to the minimalist design".
A wood-panelled staircase leads through a double-height space at the northwest corner. The firm intended the aperture to help enhance continuity between the two levels, as well as to help brighten the interior.
"The fluid transition from one space to the next continues throughout the home with a double height open space," the firm said. "United by a central wooden stairway and glass railing, it invites even more natural light into the home."
The home also features a basement level, which the architects designed as a rentable unit per the client's request.
Entry to the underground apartment is situated on the front porch, adjacent to main home's threshold. A light-well along the street-facing facade helps to provide natural light to the lower space, while a rear exit provides access to the garden.
Terraced homes are prominent among the old neighbourhoods of Montreal. Other recent similar projects include a house merged together from two flats, and a compact house featuring a split-level interior by La Shed.
Photography is by Adrien Williams.
Project credits:
Architect: Architecture Microclimat
Structural engineer: Geniex
General contractor: Microclimat architecture et construction
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Paul Bernier adds upper level to rustic log cabin in Quebec
Canadian studio Paul Bernier Architecte has designed a contemporary extension for a lakeside dwelling in Quebec made of timber and stone.
The project, called Cottage on the Point, entailed the renovation and enlargement of a log cabin that has been in one family for 40 years.
The extension has been added to a traditional log cabin
The dwelling is located in Lanaudière, a scenic region in central Quebec. Built atop a stone foundation, the cabin is anchored to a forested site that juts into a lake.
Guided by notions of "contrast and continuity," the Montreal studio of Paul Bernier Architecte sought to overhaul the single-storey building in a way that respected its rustic aesthetic yet didn't mimic it.
A new roof of Douglas fir was added
"The solution was not to pretend that this addition had always been there," the team said. "The project had to allow the old and the new to be clearly visible."
The architects also had to be mindful of site limitations. Due to the building's close proximity to the shore, the cabin needed to expand upward rather than outward.
The extension is clad in dark cedar
In response, the team added a rectangular, upper volume clad in dark-stained cedar. The east elevation features a tall, vertical window that helps carry daylight to the home's lower level.
The original building's ageing roof was removed and replaced with a Douglas fir version. Its shape and slope are derived from its predecessor.
The kitchen features marble and cedar floors
"It is the meeting of two eras," the studio said of the project. "The addition is a clean and monolithic volume but whose material and colour echo those of the original cottage."
Inside, the cabin features bright, cosy rooms and ever-present views of the water.
Views look out over the lake
The ground level encompasses a kitchen, dining area, living room, den, office and foyer. White walls and pale-toned wood – including cedar floors and Douglas fir ceilings – help the interior feel light and spacious.
In the main living area, a stone fireplace was restored and is now visible on all sides. A cathedral ceiling with exposed timber beams creates a lofty atmosphere.
A stone fireplace contrasts with the wooden floor and ceiling
A stairwell with a large window leads up to the addition, which holds a master suite and two bedrooms.
In the upstairs corridor, a portion of the floor is made of translucent glass, which enables light to pass down to the lower level.
The lake house is surrounded by pine trees
Ample glazing provides generous views of the surrounding landscape, including tall pines and starry night skies.
"This promontory offers an exceptional view of the lake and an opening to the sky that did not exist on the ground floor," the team said.
A bedroom has glazed walls and a fireplace
The only addition to the bottom level was a screened porch, located on the home's south side.
Illuminated by two skylights, the porch "offers another place to enjoy the outdoors in a space bathed in the natural light that reflects on the water."
The bedroom also has a freestanding bath by a window
Paul Bernier Architecte has completed a number of distinctive projects in Quebec, including a rural home wrapped in blackened timber and weathering steel, a cedar-clad cabin near Grenier Lake, and a mixed-use building in Montreal with a perforated metal screen on its exterior.
Photography is by Raphaël Thibodeau.
Project credits:
Architecture team: Paul Bernier, Claudia Campeau, Luc-Olivier Daigle.
Structural engineer: Alain Mousseau (Calculatec)
General contractor: Construction Léonald Goyette
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Burnt cedar clads mountainside home in Quebec by Alain Carle
Canadian studio Alain Carle Architecte has embedded a black, sculptural dwelling into a sloped site overlooking the St Lawrence River.
Called La Charbonnière, the home is part of a housing development on a mountainside in Cap à L’Aigle, a resort village in Quebec's Charlevoix region.
The site had been cleared by the developer to provide views of the St Lawrence River – a condition that made designing the home "more complex, given the over-exposure of the land".
"The resulting monumentality of the landscape is as spectacular as it is difficult to appropriate on a residential scale," said Alain Carle Architecte, a Montreal-based studio.
"This situation is not unrelated to the long tradition of settlement in the Charlevoix region, characterised by the modest scale of the dwellings set against the immensity of the St Lawrence River and the rolling landscape."
Integrating the home into the landscape and establishing a domestic context were guiding concerns. Traditional rural complexes, rather than suburban developments, influenced the design.
Embedded in a sloped site, the home consists of sculptural volumes connected by a slender bar – all of which wrap a terrace.
One wing is single storey with a flat roof, while the other has two levels and a sloped roof.
"The exterior volumetry is abstract and intriguing," the architect said. "It emerges from the soil, like a sculptural object, facing the river's monumentality."
The 225-square-metre home was constructed using wood and steel. Exterior walls are clad in blackened wood, which was charred using a Japanese technique known as shou-sugi-ban.
"The charred cedar walls are free of windows on the side facing the road and contribute to the strangeness of this form, which divides the landscape without imposing itself," the studio said.
Black houses are becoming a trademark of Alain Carle Architecte. The firm's previous projects that feature dark exteriors include a residence comprising a cluster of blackened-wood volumes and black-painted brick house – both also in Quebec.
The interior layout of La Charbonnière is meant to feel organic, "like beautiful rural homes designed without an architect".
The entryway leads into the two-storey volume. The kitchen, dining area and living room were placed on the upper storey. The lower level houses a bedroom, game room and laundry area.
Windows set within a black grid provide sweeping views of the terrain and a strong connection to the outdoors. "The living room is designed like a contemplative retreat, opening onto the riverscape," the team said.
A slender bar, which houses a dry sauna, connects to the single-storey volume, where the architects placed a large bedroom.
Throughout the home, the team used stone flooring and white textured walls and ceilings.
"The aesthetics of the indoor spaces have a rustic stamp," the team said. "The materiality refers to our roots – more rustic than modernist, closer to the earth."
Other homes in Quebec include a countryside dwelling that steps down a hillside by MU Architecture and a black lakeside cabin with white interiors by La Shed Architecture.
Photography is by James Brittain.
Project credits:
Architect: Alain Carle Architecte
Team: Alain Carle; Alexandre Lemoyne, assistant
Contractor: Demonfort
Flooring and millwork: Demonfort
Doors and windows: Alumilex
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Burnt cedar clads mountainside home in Quebec by Alain Carle
Canadian studio Alain Carle Architecte has embedded a black, sculptural dwelling into a sloped site overlooking the St Lawrence River.
Called La Charbonnière, the home is part of a housing development on a mountainside in Cap à L’Aigle, a resort village in Quebec's Charlevoix region.
The site had been cleared by the developer to provide views of the St Lawrence River – a condition that made designing the home "more complex, given the over-exposure of the land".
"The resulting monumentality of the landscape is as spectacular as it is difficult to appropriate on a residential scale," said Alain Carle Architecte, a Montreal-based studio.
"This situation is not unrelated to the long tradition of settlement in the Charlevoix region, characterised by the modest scale of the dwellings set against the immensity of the St Lawrence River and the rolling landscape."
Integrating the home into the landscape and establishing a domestic context were guiding concerns. Traditional rural complexes, rather than suburban developments, influenced the design.
Embedded in a sloped site, the home consists of sculptural volumes connected by a slender bar – all of which wrap a terrace.
One wing is single storey with a flat roof, while the other has two levels and a sloped roof.
"The exterior volumetry is abstract and intriguing," the architect said. "It emerges from the soil, like a sculptural object, facing the river's monumentality."
The 225-square-metre home was constructed using wood and steel. Exterior walls are clad in blackened wood, which was charred using a Japanese technique known as shou-sugi-ban.
"The charred cedar walls are free of windows on the side facing the road and contribute to the strangeness of this form, which divides the landscape without imposing itself," the studio said.
Black houses are becoming a trademark of Alain Carle Architecte. The firm's previous projects that feature dark exteriors include a residence comprising a cluster of blackened-wood volumes and black-painted brick house – both also in Quebec.
The interior layout of La Charbonnière is meant to feel organic, "like beautiful rural homes designed without an architect".
The entryway leads into the two-storey volume. The kitchen, dining area and living room were placed on the upper storey. The lower level houses a bedroom, game room and laundry area.
Windows set within a black grid provide sweeping views of the terrain and a strong connection to the outdoors. "The living room is designed like a contemplative retreat, opening onto the riverscape," the team said.
A slender bar, which houses a dry sauna, connects to the single-storey volume, where the architects placed a large bedroom.
Throughout the home, the team used stone flooring and white textured walls and ceilings.
"The aesthetics of the indoor spaces have a rustic stamp," the team said. "The materiality refers to our roots – more rustic than modernist, closer to the earth."
Other homes in Quebec include a countryside dwelling that steps down a hillside by MU Architecture and a black lakeside cabin with white interiors by La Shed Architecture.
Photography is by James Brittain.
Project credits:
Architect: Alain Carle Architecte
Team: Alain Carle; Alexandre Lemoyne, assistant
Contractor: Demonfort
Flooring and millwork: Demonfort
Doors and windows: Alumilex
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Appareil Architecture transforms Montreal home into minimalist living space
This renovated family dwelling on an island in the Saint Lawrence River features stripped-down rooms rendered in white, black and grey, with wood finishes adding a touch of warmth.
The project entailed the interior refurbishment of an existing, multi-storey residence in Montreal on Île des Soeurs, or Nuns' Island. The client to wanted to refine, optimise and update the rectilinear home, called the Île Blanche Residence.
"The owners wished to revisit the space to adapt it to their needs, namely creating a space as friendly as it is soothing to host friends and raise a family," said Appareil Architecture, a young Montreal studio with Nordic roots.
"The team took up the challenge of giving the home a second life and, above all, endowing it with a resolutely contemporary and luminous aesthetic."
The interior was "redesigned from A to Z". Walls in various parts of the dwelling were demolished, resulting in a more open plan and greater fluidity between different spaces.
The removal of partitions also enabled natural light to penetrate more deeply into the home.
The architects employed a restrained colour palette of white, black and grey – with wooden finishes lending a sense of warmth to austere rooms.
White walls, lacquered surfaces and wooden floors are meant to accentuate the interior's luminous quality. Custom furniture, including built-in pieces, help reinforce the refined character of the home.
"Warm touches, such as the addition of walnut wood in the kitchen and the bedroom, create a convivial atmosphere," the firm said.
Contrasting elements were also incorporated throughout the residence.
In the living room, a bright white storage cabinet floats above a black fireplace with a built-in wood store. In the dining area, a glossy white dining table is paired with black chairs and a black chandelier.
"The maple wood of the stairs and the immense vestibule door stand out even more through their juxtaposition with the immaculate white decor," the team said.
The architects also gave particular attention to incorporating details such as full-height doors and display lamps made by local craftsmen.
"Our projects demonstrate our commitment to finding a balance between tradition and modernity," the firm said.
Appareil Architecture's other work includes the conversion of an ageing Montreal industrial facility into a modern restaurant and the merging of two urban apartments to form a single, light-filled home.
Photography is by Félix Michaud.
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Project credits:
Architect: Appareil Architecture
Lampmaster: Hamster
Contractor: OOk Construction
Cabinetmaker: Steve Tousignant
Glazier: Latour Vitrier
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