Just as we use our fingers to surround the perspectives, color the sun, bend our ears, reduce the wind or block the view, the proposed structure helps modulate the interaction of houses with the environment.
The website is located on a plateau overlooking Lake St. Jean and the mouth of the Ouiatchouan River. The chalet houses are located along winding paths. Its shape and format blend with the landscape and morphology of the terrain. The roofs overlook the view and echo the small hills that are created to provide intimacy to the entrances and protect them from the wind.
Each chalet consists of 10’x 22′ easy trays placed with the look of use. Turning one in all using 20 degrees creates a vital funnel that transforms into your heart. This dedicated, guarded area captures the panorama and propels the viewer towards it. This medium is a visible establishment that captures the traveler on arrival and dematerializes the structure through an impact of attitude that provides all perspectives to the lake.
This “in-among-area” that crosses the building is designed in the spirit of a veranda or an armored porch. Blurs the boundaries between inside and outside. The four equal glass doors that surround the distance allow to modulate the privileged opening diploma and remain included mosquitoes. It is the region where in any season you eat, discuss, play cards while absorbing the sweet and the region with complete tranquility. The location of the open kitchen with its islet on wheels is flexible. Sliding panels near the rooms. All the furniture is included and stays in shape.
The shape is absolutely uncovered and composed of preferred wooden nails and plywood. Roof farms give the cottages their character with reduced custom styles with CNC virtual tools. The substances used, the simplicity of the paperwork and the repetition make these buildings affordable.
Architecturama is a small architectural firm based primarily in Montreal and based in 2012 with the help of Sylvain Bilodeau and Nicolas Mathieu-Tremblay.
For many years, they have collectively carried out numerous innovative initiatives focusing on the structure and exploration of houses, areas and creative facilities. Inspired by the way humans occupy and understand their environment, the architectural duo manipulate programs, places and thoughts to try to create more relevant and wonderful houses and objects. The direct enjoyment of substances and geometry, whether negative or rich, unusual or traditional, remains vital for the improvement of their architectural initiatives.
The duo is sensitive to the sphere of having an impact on the supplied by using a context, it could also be artistic, architectural, literary, musical, geographical, social, environmental, urban, bodily, temporary and so on. Its innovative procedure includes a sampling of this discipline of affection that is filtered through conceptual, sensory, psychosocial and pragmatic filters. A composition derived from an experience of forms and substances emerges and these body geometries, through their canvases and tectonic houses for which they can be chosen, are the expression of this sampling. Architecture does not doubt and proves by the unexpected, the unexpected, the strange, the particular, the outdated, the courage of originality and of the ceciliary and conceptual autonomy.
They use experimentation and studies to expand an exercise that integrates the perceptual elements of the structure, in particular sound. Many of his initiatives discover the affinities between art and structure and many of them are the end result of close collaborations with modern artists.
Since 2012, the company has carried out numerous initiatives for public and personal customers. She has participated in several design contests, has been a finalist in many of them and has won some. He has received numerous prize and mentions, as well as the Grand Prix de l’Architecture (Quebec), the Best of Canada Design Competition (Canada), the Muse Design prize (International), the American Architecture prize (International) and the AZ prize (International). Architecturama has also distinguished itself as a finalist in numerous prize, as well as the Quebec College of Architects’ prize of Excellence in Structure, the ICCA prize of Excellence in Metallic Construction, the Cecobois prize, in addition to the aid of the acquisition of architectural studies presented by the Quebec Council of Arts.