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• Architects: NatureHumaine
• Location: Montreal, QC, Canada
• Area: 7200.0 ft2
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Adrien Williams

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From the architect. The project is located in the Rosemont-Petite-Patrie facing the backyard of Papineau Street, a busy commercial street in Montreal. The project consists of 6 housing units each boasting a private access. Forward, the project is characterized by its simple volume, uniformly coated with a brown brick. For their variable dimensions and offset openings instill dynamism to the front. Street side, 3 parking spaces are covered by a large terrace.

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To maximize the contribution of light on the first floor, it was found detached from the facade and the glass walkways with railings. Expanded metal coating covers the exterior structure of the terrace. Copper, the steel cladding covering the lower levels reminds the tone of windows that give rhythm the project.

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© Franz Rindlisbacher

• Architects: Corinna Menn Architekten
• Location: Samedan, 7504 Samedan, Switzerland
• Architect In Charge: Corinna Menn
• Area: 147.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2013
• Photographs: Franz Rindlisbacher

• Engineer: Annabelle Breitenbach
• Project Leader: Iso Huonder, Regula Andriuet

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Site Plan

From the architect. Chesa Gabriel is a small building block within the historic core development in Samedan. Flanked by neighbouring buildings, the inconspicuous volume abuts a square toward the north and has a narrow south-facing façade looking onto a courtyard garden. The typology of stable and farmhouse goes back to the 16th century. After continual conversions of the original building fabric, an additional storey was added to the house in 1920, drastically altering its volume. The house is thus divided into two parts along this temporal seam. One apartment comprises the historical fabric, whose original spatial typology was uncovered and opened up to extend across the depth of the house and former stable. As 20th-century overlay, the attic apartment was given a free-form floor plan within the original walls. As new sculptural element, the balcony monolithically connects with the outer wall. Together with the outside stairs and the garden wall, the new elements are melded with the traces left on the façade from the different eras.

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© João Carmo Simões

• Architects: Pedro Domingos arquitectos
• Location: R. Santo António 36B, 2780-164 Oeiras, Portugal
• Architect In Charge: Pedro Domingos
• Area: 220.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: João Carmo Simões

• Project Coordinator: Bruno Antão
• Collaborators: Pedro Gonçalves e João Bagorro
• Engineering: Fernando Rodrigues, Cristina Martinho, Mário Boucinha, João Guimarães
• Landscape : Catarina Assis Pacheco
• Construction Company: Manuel Mateus Frazão

© João Carmo Simões

From the architect. The house is anchored to an interior patio with 11.5m x11.5m x 5.75m.

The patio acts as the center of the house, an outdoor room. A space built in reference to the atmosphere of the traditional mediterranean patio, defining a place of intimacy, light and shadow.

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The house is organized around the patio, through a path from the common areas, in the south/east, to the most private rooms in the north.

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The house is lived as a continuous space without interior doors, with different heights and atmospheres in order to define its use. The central patio is the only autonomous space where the physical boundary is precise and defined.

Ground Floor Plan

The construction is simple and austere, emphasizing the pure qualities of light, shadow and space, looking for a constructive and economic optimization: concrete structure; interior and exterior walls with pigmented plaster; inside floors finished with pigmented concrete; ceilings with exposed natural concrete; frames with fixed glass and metal doors.

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