Glowing yellow accents stand out in opposition to concrete and steel surfaces inside this “inventive laboratory” that architect Jean Verville has created for himself inside a residential tower in Quebec Metropolis.
The Canadian architect, who’s at the moment dividing his time between follow and educating on the Faculty of Structure of Laval College in Quebec Metropolis, designed the 79-square-metre residence as an area he can each work and reside in.
Verville, founding father of Studio Jean Verville Architecte, describes the undertaking as “an architectural experiment orchestrating an area with a graphic dimension”.
The Nineteen Seventies tower by which the residence is positioned was designed by architect Marcel Bilodeau and faces the Plains of Abraham Park in entrance of the St Lawrence River.
“Like an remark put up providing breathtaking views of the Laurentian Mountains, the city panorama, and the St Lawrence River, the inside comes alive with an immutable body-to-body relationship between transparency and reflection, whereas remodeling realities by way of distancing and multiplication,” stated the architect.
The residence was fully gutted to depart a uncooked concrete shell, with home windows on the north and south sides ushering airy into the deep house.
As an alternative of stable partitions, Verville put in a collection of sliding partitions so he may open up or shut off areas as desired.
These glass and mirror panes are mounted on steel tracks and bounce the pure airy by way of the residence, permitting the compact unit to really feel bigger than it’s.
“By addition or subtraction, this elastic system fragments the plan into six format alternate options with undetermined capabilities, providing as much as seven distinct sub-spaces,” stated Verville. “In the meantime, elastic blinds with a metallic end permit the choice of openwork borders, in addition to whole privateness.”
Beside the south-facing balcony is a kitchen, which options stainless-steel industrial restaurant furnishings that blends with the gray concrete shell.
A central island is fitted with two sinks, every with a enormous balanced-arm lamp in dazzling yellow mounted on the wall behind.
The lamps may be adjusted into place above any space of the kitchen counter to assist with meals preparation.
Rooms advised by the partitions embody a sleeping space furnished solely with a basic low mattress and a examine the place a basic steel desk faces a window.
The dwelling space is populated by a rust-coloured couch and a black lacquered chair organized round a pair of mirrored espresso tables.
“The strategic positioning of home tools maintains fixed bodily and visible permeability to neutralise the compactness of the unit,” Verville stated.
Companies, pipes and ductwork are all uncovered all through the residence, demonstrating the way it operates as a useful house.
Different eclectic objects peppered by way of the residence give the texture of a inventive laboratory, by which its occupant experiments with house and the act of dwelling inside it.
“Glass vials of all types, fashions and numerous explorations, utilitarian objects, and vegetation rub shoulders on the cabinets, revisiting the spirit of the cupboard of curiosities in a playful presentation of on a regular basis life,” stated the architect.
Verville is understood for its minimalist material-focused tasks, in addition to for playfully inserting himself into the images of accomplished – as evidenced on this set.
He can be seen wandering round in a cape by way of a Montreal residence designed for a music composer, hanging out of a loft in a shed he transformed right into a workspace and balancing on the roof of an A-frame forest cabin.
Venture credit:
Studio Jean Verville Architectes workforce: Jean Verville, architect – lead designer; Gabriel Ladouceur, studio coordinator, skilled and scientific MA structure candidate; Guillaume Turgeon Solis, technical specialist; France Goneau, creative advisor; Tania Paula Garza Rico, architect
Particular collaborations: Loïc Bard, artwork furnishings; France Goneau, ceramic sculptures
Contractor: Nomad Building
