Jean Verville Architecte inserts gridded steel lightwell into Montreal home
Canadian studio Jean Verville Architecte has created a theatrical interior inside a Montreal house by adding a large steel structure capped by a skylight that casts dramatic shadows.
For the project, called MSO; Play/Pause, the studio completely reorganised the interior of the building and built a 12-metre-high steel lightwell in the centre of the three-storey house.
Top image: the steel structure casts dramatic shadows. Above: it runs through the house
The house belongs to a pair of actors, Sophie Cadieux and Mani Soleymanlou, so Jean Verville Architecte designed them a home that could double as a performance venue.
"We subtracted floor sections from the heart of the house to insert the steel structural installation, " studio founder Jean Verville told Dezeen. "The rooms on the outskirts have been kept but redistributed to new versatile functions."
Light from the skylight is scattered across the ground-floor kitchen
The steel installation measures five by five metres. A skylight caps the structure, turning it into a lightwell that casts theatrical shadows in the rooms.
Its addition breaks up the shapes of the existing rooms, creating an interesting new layout for the owners as they go about their daily lives.
The steel grids create decorative shadows
As the structure unfolds over the three floors of the four-bedroom house, it creates what the studio describes as "pauses," with functional spaces at the bottom of the building followed by livin...
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