Solarium

The client required an aesthetic and use change of the current garden and the incorporation of a swimming pool. The strategy is to understand the garden with an ‘outside room of the house’. The aesthetic and functional change involves the redesign of the space and the choice of appropriate materials for different uses. For the pool area, we bet on working the pavements and the bench with clay materials that provide naturalness and consistency. The perimeter vegetation surrounds the garden, giving a visual richness that is enhanced by the variation in height and volume of the different species planted in order to control the views with respect to the neighbors and reduce the visual impact of a perimeter fence. The incorporation... More

Our team has been mandated to add a new room to a townhouse in Quebec City. The 112 sq. ft. expansion takes place in the house back yard. The idea intended was to provide a simple contemporary gesture that could easily fit into the architectural ethics of the neighbourhood.The owners have expanded to create a new logic into their living spaces. Space, light, intimacy and "openness to the outside" are the key words of this conception.The extension takes the form of a dark tinted glass cube. The large apertures are precisely cut and create a new supply of natural light that enters in one of the most coveted rooms of the house, the kitchen.The cube and the façade meeting allows to design an intimate terrace. A geometry imagined to se... More