The arrangement of this house is born of the radical choice to place the required swimming pool in the very heart of it. 

The house can either create a unique relationship in continuity with its garden, or otherwise preserves family life.

In the evening, this "water lantern" illuminates the house and evokes that "No matter the journey, as long as the horizon is vast".

We’ve studied the approximation of the observer to the space and realized that the most visually relevant plan from the exterior was the ceiling and so, we focused on that.

The wooden stripes descend throw two of the walls creating an effect that dialogs directly with the consumer. When one moves throw space realizes that some hidden forms start to appear on the walls.

Shaped as an "L", it is divided in two parts - a longitudinal volume organized the service areas and the leisure zone, while the bedrooms are located in the shorter volume, transversal to the lot. An additional volume, a storage room placed in the limit of the terrain, accurately defines the central courtyard.

The interior spaces are directly associated to the patio, though protected by the porch, that externally unifies the different areas of the house as intensifies the daily experiences of the family.

The new building takes a radically different language, by contrast with its surroundings, both from the standpoint of their language and image, discrete, repetitive, as well as by the succession of volumes, with full and empty, marked by the juxtaposition of contrasting surfaces. 

The whole structure would complement the existing equipment in the city within the European Capital of Culture. 

Located in the heart of the Villeray district, the De Gaspé House project consisted of the major renovation of an existing building that lost most of its original characteristics.

The old duplex including a garage as well as a variety of annexes was transformed into a single family home for two adults and two children.