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Maison Koya

By : Alain Carle Architecte

GRANDS PRIX DU DESIGN – 14th edition

Discipline : Architecture

Categories : Residential Building / Single-Family Home : Gold Certification

The site is part of a real estate development on the approaches to the town of Saint-Sauveur in the Laurentians. The occupants have chosen to make their project multigenerational, by allocating spaces for grandparents and their children. The project revolves around this temporal relationship, by structuring a mode of implementation related to the topographical features rather than to a logic of single-family row housing, typical of suburban areas. The
project’s morphology materially distinguishes the more permanent elements of the residence, in concrete, from the more ephemeral components in wood. Like a sculptural bas-relief, the main traffic axes on the site become the two axes of the composition of the complex. Different concrete retaining walls, landings, and transitional stairways install a new topography on the site. Deep geothermal boreholes anchor the composition in sustainability and address the energy needs metaphorically rather than in strictly technical terms. Three wooden volumes are then deposited on the exterior of this new topography to accommodate the changing nature of the program. They are cantilevered on the concrete structures, in an unstable situation, and point respectively in opposite directions. This complex is detached from a conventional composition of the suburban single-family home. Maison Koya seeks to establish a more open relationship with the site in the broader sense.

Collaboration

Architect : Alain Carle Architecte

Manufacturer - Distributor : Alumico

Manufacturer - Distributor : Toiture Vaillancourt

Photographer : Raphael Thibodeau

Landscaper : Carlos Ipser

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Category : Door and Window Alumico

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