LAMAS builds contemporary Canadian farmhouse with reclaimed timber walls
The old agricultural buildings of Quebec informed this modern farmhouse near Montreal, which features walls of reclaimed wood, steeply pitched roofs and a secluded inner courtyard.
Called Townships Farmhouse, the property was designed by Toronto firm LAMAS for a working farm in the town of North Hatley, about an hour-and-a-half's drive east of Montreal and close to the border with Vermont.
It provides a home for an artist and a farmer with long ties to the area. Their brief was for a building that reflected their interest in land conservation and the preservation of agricultural buildings.
Situated within a landscape of rolling farmland encompassing lakes and small mountains, the building draws on the varied architectural heritage of early American colonies and barns commonly found in Quebec's eastern townships.
It references its context through the arrangement of the plan and the use of materials, such as hemlock cladding salvaged from dilapidated barns in Ontario.
"Although it is obviously geared towards domestic habitation, the design of the house was always meant as an evolution of farm buildings and the unique ways that they structure space," said LAMAS principle Vivian Lee.
The building's layout references both the U-shaped Ontario barns built after 1850 and traditional Quebec barns featuring aisles and haylofts positioned perpendicular to the main roof line.
The idea of an aisle that typically forms a thoroughfare for materials or livestock is re...
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