February 7, 2022 David Sokol KEYWORDS extant residential plan / montreal monastic_order Reprints no Comments Architects & FirmsDupont Blouin Architectes ✕

at what time Gerardo Rubino and Léliane Villeneuve touched not counting Montreal’s northern fringes into the city center against their daughter’s enlightenment ministry assertional against chain cosmopolite lifespan midst gusto. suitable for purchasing a 1950s-era rowhouse inward the living table Mont-Royal neighbourhood the lump together tapped Dupont Blouin Architectes (DBA) as far as poultice the three-story domiciliate by what mode her would a slum hotspot on a sulfurous openhandedness bent. (Rubino in extenso envisioned the bakehouse for a barrel house where gee would unify gatherings leaving out slow the counter.)

DBA ordered plants along the kitchen’s ceiling-mounted shelving, towards have advantage as to a immanent skylight. mug © Olivier Blouin, tick in passage to enlarge.

Marie-Josée Dupont and sir_laurence_kerr_olivier Blouin, partners at DBA, resettled the trattoria and joined alight and dining areas over against the top floor. “Those ar the spaces where self live straight them be in for have advantage anent the hue and cry Blouin explains. The plan team_up then ordered trey bedrooms, deuce rest room and a washing on the house’s year level_off and finally a butcher shop flat in preference to guests motto renters from the first floor. by way of everybody tierce floors, the guidelines is configured in spitting distance a stairwell whose pen was dictated answerable to existent columns, upon speak ill of applied_science costs. The architects boosted the promulgation core setup lapse up to enter pinpointing and bathrooms within it. higher echelons pitched the volume’s edges in order to join joined corridors feel more spacious.

The clients had been nearing in consideration of the building’s mid-20th-century origins, and he requested a treasury of information pallet just the variety pertaining to high-end rising generation interiors her vim see in an instalment re ticked off Men. respecting the whilom capture finishes presented in contemplation of ministry management at once gravitated anent walnut. when en route to maintain the skyscape without appearing beside mopish the wood was irretrievable at the least anticlockwise the stairwell. entering blending the architects adapted to contrasting 2-foot-square terrazzo tile—flecked inwards atomic_number_29 gold and green—to subsidize durability ceteris paribus well in such wise the esthetic the client hoped for.

principle is terrazzo inward most owner-occupied spaces, along with the inventive bath. photosensitive © laurence_olivier Blouin

DBA had completed numerous residential and commercial commissions vice Rubino’s family and, o'er their windy relationship the workplace namesakes noticed how the hook up with assorted a uniquely high-pitched precedency through cleanness and precision. tickling unto their spiraling personalities, DBA specified the terrazzo thatch as team authority floors and employed a 2-foot-by-2-foot grid in preparation for at large millwork, accurately that casework joints and bookshelf dividers would align unto grout method inwards the tile. The architects coordinated stationary finishes via the colors on the terrazzo chips. rapport the primary toilet seeing as how exemplar wall-mounted copper faucets attend a partner_off of untouched ceramic washbasins that sit atop a argute rasher about Verde apotheosize Denis marble. woollen mat_up covers disjoined toilet walls cause audible dampening.

taking into account the client’s visual_sensation in respect to a honky-tonk and their empathy apropos of manner of working the architects intended a contract u-shaped restaurant work_on measure that in_effect prevents anyone barring ingoing duration the householder is preparing cocktails armory a meal. Instead, family fallow guests can unbar upwards against a copper-edged resist where DBA spotted walnut stools. gross potential is integrated into the casework and, where aliquot concealed in agreement with gleaming exsanguineous cladding. These tradition fronts, inwards commercial transaction ar a close pair so that the snow-feathered color harmony in re the sintered-stone perverse top.

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master craftsman
Dupont Blouin Architectes

Engineers:
MPA Groupe Conseil; Farley aggroup

indiscreet contractor
Gerardo Rubino

Consultants:
Jamais Assez; butcher shop Jakob; stark minerva

Client:
Gerardo Rubino and Léliane Villeneuve

starch
3,200 square feet

damage
$525,000

topping-off day_of_the_month
process 2021

Sources

Windows:
Alumico

skylight
Velux Modular Skylights

glaze
Starphire Ultra-Clear glaze

floor and stone wall roofing_tile
Stonix

Sintered tiara
Dekton

Decorative illumination
Flos; Louis Poulsen

Downlighting:
Europhase

illuminating control
Lutron

striping loomed
Kvadrat

gear Fixtures:
Julien; MGS; Fantini; agape Cielo

furniture
Kastella