Landscape Machines House
Quebec City, Canada
The house is incorporated on the site and immersed in the landscape. It is an architecture of "interval" which emerges from the context and is distorted by it: a pause in the continuity of the place.
The natural topography introduces a promenade drawn in continuity all around the home. Taking advantage of the unevenness of the site, the lower level of the house becomes a base which contains an open space intended for the daughter of the owner. A monolithic volume, superimposed on this base, takes place and becomes a "landscape machine".
On the first level, the living rooms are directly connected to the promenade formed by the ground floor’s ceiling. The main entrance opens onto the living rooms. The kitchen and the dining room are part of an interior – exterior – interior – exterior sequence that blurs the boundaries between domestic spaces and the landscape. On the upper floor, each room is in contact with an exclusive exterior extension. These outdoor spaces are excavated in the monolithic volume and their presence is underlined by an external wooden covering.
With A. Vallières
Photography by F. Michaud
Landscape elements identified by the stratigraphic survey are at the origin of a vortex which distorts the volumetric purity and the interior spaces of the dwelling. The landscape sculpts the domestic space and thus becomes an element of life in the house.
The kitchen and dining room are part of an interior - exterior - interior - exterior sequence that blurs the boundaries between domestic spaces and the landscape.
