The Du Tour Residence is a renovation project. This Laval home, designed by an architect in the ?60s, has belonged to the same family for decades. Its very special character and distinctive details were to be retained. The designers? challenge was to transform the home?s interior into a contemporary space without losing its soul and the memories associated with it. Volume and perspective.

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Architects: Architecture Open Form

Location: Laval, QC, Canada

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Adrien Williams

Project Manager: Maurice Martel, architect and associate

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From the architect. The Du Tour Residence is a renovation project. This Laval home, designed by an architect in the ?60s, has belonged to the same family for decades. Its very special character and distinctive details were to be retained. The designers? challenge was to transform the home?s interior into a contemporary space without losing its soul and the memories associated with it. Volume and perspective.
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Floor Plan

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In collaboration with the interior design firm FX Studio par Clairoux, the concept was developed by highlighting the horizontality of the building?s "prairie style? architecture and reintroducing the use of natural wood. I...