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Butternut House in Gatineau Québec
Feb 5, 2022
Architect: Maurice Martel architecte
Location: Gatineau, Québec, Canada

Butternut House, Québec
Built with prefabricated walls, as part of a model house project, Butternut is a single-storey house that explores living as a game of volumes that balances openness and intimacy.

With the constraint of the dimensions of the structural insulated panels (SIP), the project represented a great challenge of construction and creativity for the architect. In order to break the standardization effect of prefabrication, the residence unfolds through four volumes that play with the heights, and whose layout offers a rich journey offering multiple views and atmospheres.
A volume balanced between openness and intimacy

The lot, typical of a suburban home layout, did not offer much privacy. To preserve proximity with neighbours, the architect favored an installation in the form of an enclosure from which a naturally protected interior courtyard emerges. The strategic placement of a few perimeter walls around the residence strikes a harmonious note with intimacy by enabling entry of abundant light through large windows, where vis-à-vis views with the neighbourhood are avoided.

Inside, neutral colors and raw materials set the tone of a warm and simple architecture. The details are worked with finesse, as evidenced by the joints between the wal...