Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard, Quebec
Residential
Unbuilt
The house is quietly discovered along a winding dirt path from the chapel. Built on a natural plateau, its siting offers panoramic views of Lac Gémont, the Laurentian forest, and its mountains. The straight roof lines of the four wooden volumes stand out from the ground. Together, they form an unusual yet coherent whole cascading down the hill; connected side by side but never intersecting and identical in shape but varying in height. This fragmentation directly echoes the topography, allowing it to hug the hill, reducing bulk, and maintaining a direct link with the landscape without ever competing with it. The massing skirts and retains as many existing trees as possible, creating sub-zones where terraces meet the ground and connect to the landscape. To further integrate the building, the flat roofs are adorned with vegetation. The house is both simple and complex, discreet and imposing, open and introverted, bare and luxurious.
Residential
Unbuilt
The house is quietly discovered along a winding dirt path from the chapel. Built on a natural plateau, its siting offers panoramic views of Lac Gémont, the Laurentian forest, and its mountains. The straight roof lines of the four wooden volumes stand out from the ground. Together, they form an unusual yet coherent whole cascading down the hill; connected side by side but never intersecting and identical in shape but varying in height. This fragmentation directly echoes the topography, allowing it to hug the hill, reducing bulk, and maintaining a direct link with the landscape without ever competing with it. The massing skirts and retains as many existing trees as possible, creating sub-zones where terraces meet the ground and connect to the landscape. To further integrate the building, the flat roofs are adorned with vegetation. The house is both simple and complex, discreet and imposing, open and introverted, bare and luxurious.