Matching wooden walls, floors and furnishings blend together inside this pair of gabled buildings, designed by Canadian studio Atelier Pierre Thibault to offer communal accommodation for visitors to a Quebec nature reserve.
Photograph by Laurence Gaudette (also main image)
Quebec City-based Atelier Pierre Thibault designed Résidence des Stagiaires, or Trainee Residence, at the 18-hectare (45-acre) Jardins de Métis in rural Quebec, which is also known as Reford Gardens.

Clad in ashen wood and topped with metallic roofs, the two structures provide accommodation for those involved with the annual International Garden Festival, during which architects and designers create temporary structures in the surroundings.
Participants typically spend between four and 12 weeks at the site during mid-summer, as part of the festival.
"They come from various fields such as horticulture, landscaping, landscape architecture, architecture, graphic design, culinary arts, agriculture and environmental studies," Atelier Pierre Thibault's Émilie Gagné-Loranger told Dezeen.
"They work for the festival five days a week, and spend their weekends exploring the area and its beaches, bike trails, hikes, villages and mountains."

Atelier Pierre Thibault separated the functions of the house into two wings, which are offset with an outdoor terrace between them.

One contains the communal kitchen, living and dining room in a double-height space, while bedrooms are located in th...