ARCHITECT: NATUREHUMAINE
A couple with two young children wish to transform a duplex located in Rosemont La Petite Patrie into their principal family residence.
The project consists in reorganizing the original portion of the house and enlarging it with an extension in the yard while preserving the facade on the street as required by the city bylaws.
Suspended above the dining room, a grey angular volume sheltering the master bedroom cantilevers out over the garden terrace. For more intimacy, a pair of steel blades unfolds in front of two large panes of glass over the garden facade filtering the views from the neighbours and modulating the natural light coming into the living spaces.
Wishing to create an effect of depth on the garden fa?ade, two tones of colours are used one gray tone for the suspended volume covered in fibrocement boards and an other in copper for the windows, steel blades and the patio door in the recessed portion of the back wall.
An angular frame like structure connects both immediate neighbours as a result of their differences in the protrusions of their constructions.