Housing needs and architecture
The rehabilitation of this shelter reflects the architect's method of approaching the essence of his clients' daily lives, leading them to consider their daily habits and their real family needs to design the spaces.
Geometric shapes and wood for a minimalist cottage by the lake
Captivating and ingenious, the project located in St. Adolfe d'Howard, Canada, eloquently illustrates the fertile contribution resulting from the great collaboration between Architect Jean Verville and his clients.
Unconventional Design Solution
Jean Verville continues his reflections on compact living spaces by breaking away from standardization. Challenging the initial assumption of lack of space, the architect has instead chosen to reduce the floor surfaces in favor of spatial quality. Simultaneously compressed and fragmented, stratified and unobstructed, the living area decreases by intensely exploiting the densification of spaces.
Triangle and Space
The vocabulary of this project is a trigonometric poem that juggles with the emblematic triangular figure, while maintaining a minimalist signature. The force that emerges from the project imposes triumphant images on reality to push us into an infinite territory, that of imagination.
The cottage, built in the 1960s on the Laurentians site, presents the characteristic shape of a triangular construction.
Space and nature
Once the interior was demolished and completely emptied, the architect leverages the triangular structural form, which rejects the monotony of a predetermined spatial organization, to develop a new layout that gives a relaxing atmosphere to this family retreat away from urban frenzy.
Space Organization
The open living space connected to nature borders a compact kitchen area that enjoys the free space, staircase, and double height of the structure. Playful and lively, the girls' den offers a huge platform under the beds, always ready to welcome friends, with a corner designed for reading, inserted in a triangular alcove. This room, entirely dressed in wood, reveals a fascinating place dedicated to children's games away from the living spaces on the ground floor.
Design solutions to enjoy panoramas
By ingeniously playing with scales, Verville has managed to increase the perception of visual depth by exploiting the limits and openings to wonderfully draw part of the density of this space. A window positioned on the floor of the main bedroom enhances the brightness of the kitchen area below, while offering a view of the lake from the bed, emphasizing the view of the surrounding nature.
Mathematics and geometric shapes
The architect who, in this as in other architecture projects, exchanging his mathematical thinking outward, redesigns a volumetric graphic all united by black. The subtractions applied to the four elevations bore new openings that sometimes point to the lake, sometimes to the sky, to better interact with the landscape.
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