Creating interconnectivity in Rosemont-La-Petite-Patrie

Printed Could 18, 2023 • 3 minute learn

Impartial and minimalist but nonetheless heat and welcoming, the eating room has a contact of wooden and an abundance of pure gentle and greenery, giving it a decidedly Zen vibe. Picture by ADRIEN WILLIAMS AND PROVIDED BY V2COM

A method to join residents to the skin world with out enlarging a construction’s footprint, modular structure, also referred to as pixelated or Jenga structure, is an fascinating various to easily increase, and away, from the pure atmosphere.

Whereas most vertically streamlined houses have separate residing areas stacked on high of one another with out quite a lot of connectivity between them, or engagement with the outside world, 2nd Avenue Residence supplies its residents with varied livable platforms which can be inter-connected.

“Residing areas that supply a mess of every day experiences because of the routes they provide, each indoors and outdoor,” says Guillaume Marcoux, the co-founder of Microclimat Structure, concerning the distinctive design and format that was created on the positioning of what was once an adjoining home’s parking zone.

Exterior of 2nd Avenue residence — The play of volumes at night time. Picture by ADRIEN WILLIAMS AND PROVIDED BY V2COM

“Whereas its entrance façade is aligned, hid and made easy, the rear façade of 2nd Avenue Residence opens, initiatives, retracts and cuts out. In the identical encompassing materials gesture, two interfaces with distinct obligations are deployed, one which builds a coherent city construction and protects our collective architectural reminiscence, the opposite which makes residing areas, modern wants and our methods of designing shine.”

Positioned within the jap a part of the favored Rosemont-La-Petite-Patrie neighbourhood, the three storey-home was constructed amid an inventory of constraints, which incorporates the sizable distinction between the lot and avenue ranges within the again alley.

As an answer, the Microclimat group got here up with a tiered architectural design the place the sliding volumes create completely different environments.

“With the particularity of a major distinction between the degrees of the road and the land on the alley aspect, completely different vertical group methods needed to be devised to facilitate transitions and even densify the challenge,” explains Marcoux.

“The creation of a snug basement thus allowed the mixing of a small studio on the road and the concealment of a storage accessible from the alley.”

For Marcoux, it’s one of many main highlights of the challenge: the standard of assorted and intimate experiences on such a slim website.

“It’s concerning the habitability of the inside areas of the home. Far too many stunning modern houses are hyper photogenic however show troublesome to personalize. In distinction, you instantly really feel at dwelling within the 2nd Avenue Residence,” he says.

Kitchen at 2nd ave residence — Smooth, white and brilliant, the easy kitchen island is surrounded by greige matte lacquer cupboards. Picture by ADRIEN WILLIAMS AND PROVIDED BY V2COM.

The kitchen, eating room and lounge, that are all a number of steps above floor degree, open onto each other and the yard, through massive sliding glass doorways that give onto a big terrace perched atop the storage. Surrounded by a low brick wall, the terrace provides itself as a promontory onto the again alley in addition to an outside, intimate space for the house’s residents.

The brick wall additionally supplies a measure of privateness indoors, even with the ground to ceiling sliding wall characteristic in the lounge.

“Eager to speculate themselves of their new adopted neighbourhood, Jean-Yves and his household needed to be discreet and to settle in a respectful dwelling design that will humbly insert itself into the panorama; a sequence of red-ochre plexes and single-family houses,” says Marcoux concerning the consumer.

“The architectural duality of the forestages and backstages of the Montréal block is a part of the richness of the central districts. If a multiplication of façades that enhances the wealthy constructed heritage of the town unfolds on the road, the alleys abound with volumetric and materials explorations from all eras.”

The houses extra intimate areas, together with two huge bedrooms, a rest room and a multifunctional house graced by a skylight in addition to a view into the again alley, are positioned on the second ground.

The multifunctional house, that was designed to evolve with the household’s altering wants over time, additionally vertically connects areas from all ranges, because of its beneficiant double top and skylight.

Enveloped in a heat palette of white oak and greige matte lacquer, this house turns into a kind of platform the place one will be carried away into the town and thru time, in response to the architect.

Accomplished: 2021
Measurement: 2,500 sq. toes
Supplies used for inside: Glass, white oak and matte lacquer.
Supplies used for exterior: Brick, concrete and greenery, together with ferns and perennials.
Architect: Microclimat
Challenge supervisor: Guillaume Marcoux
Panorama architect: Vivant
Engineer: Latéral
Contractor: Development N. Deslauriers

About Microclimat Structure
From the micro to the macro, Microclimat is fascinated about methods to positively contribute to the expansion and evolution of our cities. Working since 2013 within the residential and business sectors throughout the province, the agency is fascinated about points affecting city densification, constructed heritage and the fitting to the town. Microclimat seeks to combine every challenge into the logic of its neighborhood.

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