Habiter la limite

Québec, Canada

BDR Founded project

In this exploration, a conceptual shift brings the wall, a transition element of the dwelling, to become a habitable place. By adopting some characters of furniture, this wall becomes a nomadic device for contemporary living. This shift is consistent with the transformations of society and individuals who are increasingly mobile, as much in contemporary metropolitan dynamics as in new rural territories. In this way, the project considers the role of the elements that make up the contemporary habitat.

The project considers the “nomadic” and flexible potential of the furniture, mobile part of the house: the furniture follows the inhabitants through their moves in the interval of their lives, becoming the fixed base in contemporary instability of living. The object becomes an emotional element for each inhabitant that follows the subject throughout its history. Thus, the nomadic part of traditional housing becomes a stable element, a benchmark.

This concentration of living space in the thickness of the wall allows a spatial inversion in the design of living spaces. The wall, element that delimits the living space, becomes a dwelling and, at the same time, frees its condition of "limit" by merging with the space of the landscape that encompasses it. Therefore, the inhabitant finds himself in contact with the surrounding landscape in a porous object through which the landscape gradually infiltrates.

Assistants : M. Boucher-Côté, J.-B. Morissette, G. Nadeau, K. Pariseau, O. Vallerand