This house has a rustic look. Its architecture is more rural
than modernist, closer to the earth than to the sky. It hugs the
profile of the terrain. The exterior volumetry is abstract and
intriguing. Two volumes with irregular angles are anchored
to retaining walls holding the soil on a slope. The black
pine walls contribute to the strangeness of this form, which
intersects the landscape without imposing itself. It is inscribed
in the place.
Its internal organization extends this relationship with the
topography, like an interior landscape: hills, slate plateaus,
erratic black boulders… The interior spaces are declined in
split levels from the street access level. The reception floor
is extended to form one of the kitchen counters. Farther in,
wide steps introduce the living and dining room spaces, while
offering themselves as informal benches, facing the landscape
that opens before you: Charlevoix, and the grandeur of the St.
Lawrence.