Canadian studio Appareil Architecture has created a wooden, light-filled mountain house with a single-pitch roof in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec.
Known as Résidence des Rapides, the three-bedroom house is partially embedded in a sloped four-acre site on the banks of the Diable River in the Laurentian Mountains.
Appareil Architecture has built a wooden mountain home in Québec with a single-pitch roof
Montreal-based Appareil Architecture completed the cedar-clad house in 2023, informed by the studio's earlier design of its Piloti bench sofa with exposed joints and absence of hardware.
"Through its exposed solid wood structure, the Résidence des Rapides creates a coherent, visible language, at the crossroads between object and architecture," founding architect Kim Pariseau told Dezeen. The sloped monumental roof is raised on a colonnade of rectangular wooden columns
The team designed the house with a bold form that expresses its structure. It has a monumental roof that overhangs up to eight feet (2.4 metres) in some places to form covered passageways around the house and a 15-foot-high (4.5 metres) cathedral ceiling inside.
"We wanted to give the roof a sense of lightness, almost floating above the house," Marc-Olivier Champagne-Thomas, an associate architect at Appareil Architecture, said.
"We deliberately avoided the use of lateral columns for its support, opting instead for an integrated approach where the body of the structure and that of the roof are...