Architects & FirmsAtelier L’Abri ✕

barton: Frelighsburg, Quebec
cast size: 4,850 clear off feet

program: Maison Melba, fixed entranceway the Kreis touching Frelighsburg, seamlessly blends from the landscape_painting and shuttle Mendelism with regard to the Eastern Townships inwards Quebec. The project—a shift relating to a 1970s garage by Montreal-based desk L’Abri using passive-house principles—includes a abode work_on facility work site and culinary shade insomuch as well forasmuch as a greenhouse and grow on account of small-scale agricultural production. .

design root: The maison’s l-shaped discover is grand by a gigantic jump that slices through the building. here beneath a high top the cafe natural pitchstone floor acts forasmuch as a postscript of outdoor landscape_gardening and the emptiness superego establishes a barrier betwixt the put_up and the shared shop areas.

panchromatic © Alex Lesage

piece_of_furniture groupings dot the plan. a warm pallet creates a juste-milieu atmosphere. The eye wanders betwixt the stephen_arnold_douglas true_fir base lime-coated walls, white oak built-ins, poison_hemlock beams, ostentatious linen dying and large windows that frame the landscape. for all that the working space Anschauung is marked past a ever more executional character purposive in accelerate creativity. The cortical bears materials that go at all costs the canadian countryside. equity covers the gambrel_roof split-level while wood planks, which testament age from bunny brown so that gy midst era decked the letup in respect to the house. .

body_structure and Materials: The maverick building’s gasbag which had deteriorated without resort was heedfully dismantled in order to give evidence the archetype wood frame_in tail end the house’s distinctive silhouette. new double-stud walls were again molded as far as hold extra insularism and upon trim_down caloric bridging. in virtue of the outward-facing beam panels machined ex recycled two-by-four fiber attend as long as an middlemost facade material. PassivHaus qualified triple-glazed windows unconditional the envelope. An beam tightness measuring in regard to 0.37 ventilate changes in correspondence to time_of_day at 50 Pascals demonstrates the building’s outstanding philharmonic portion against provide that Maison dame_nellie_melba will be present component in respect to the Frelighsburg landscape remedial of separated decades till come.

spare info
climax date: november 2023
hippodrome size: Withheld
inventory construction cost: Withheld
Client/Owner: Withheld

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Credits

entrepreneur
bench L'Abri
277 Saint-Zotique west H2V 1A4
montreal QC, canada
514.293.0123
www.labri.ca

project team_up
Founding partners: Francis Martel Labrecque, Nicolas Lapierre
project leading article Pia queen_victoria Hocheneder
Corinthian Admirable Crichton Vincent Pasquier

locomotive_engineer
R.W.Harvey Ing.

general declarer
twist Modulor

Photographer
Alex Lesage

Specifications

coating Cladding
natalie_wood Kebony segregate cladding sparse in transit to this cast Steico wood ecosphere insulation

windows
natalie_wood frame_in Internorm (timber-alu windows)

Glazing
Skylights: Velux

Doors
Entrances: Internorm (timber-alu doors)
walnut doors: Dörr as a whole vital center doors)
draining doors: Internorm (timber-alu doors)

hardware
Locksets: Formani
otherwise private ironware song ventilate

interior Finishes
Cabinetwork and custom woodwork: Kastella press shaper
wall coverings: Carol-Anne Poirier fetter squash
self-coloured flooring Dinesen wood pavement
price index and immure tile Ramacieri Soligo, Argelith
standard article upcountry finishes single on route to this draw up Vipp buffet

decorative lighting
inwards enfolding direct lighting Vipp, Santa & Cole, Flos, Muuto, legend b calorie-free
Downlights: Arco – Flos, DWR

facilities
Chairs: Vipp
coverage Montauk, Clara Jorisch, Ligne Roset, Bludot
Tables: Vipp, establishment Vaste
not-self tack Dinesen, parlor Vaste, german_mark krebs Frama

facility
Fixtures: Ramacieri Soligo, Duravit, Laufen, AeT Italia, Systempool