Alex Lesage

BROM

Firm LocationMontreal, Canada

Project locationQuebec, Canada

CompanyAtelierCarle

Lead DesignerIsaniel Lévesque and Alain Carle

Design TeamBaptiste Balbrick, Camille Denis, Sarah Mei Mousseau, James Jabbour

Projecthttps://ateliercarle.ca/en/brom/

This project is rooted in a critical approach to sustainability issues related to residential architecture in rural areas. To honor the history of the site and its existing structures, the foundations and masonry chimney of the former residence were preserved and integrated into the new house concept. This intervention establishes a dialogue between past and present. In the same way that the architecture blurs the two temporalities of the site's occupation, the materials and furniture ground the character of the spaces in an aesthetic that sits between the old and the new.