A down-tempo, electronica song by a Montreal singer informed the design of an all-white installation created by students in a studio led by Canadian architect Jean Verville.

Called B15, the installation is the final project for a graduate studio at Laval University School of Architecture in Quebec City, where Verville recently became a professor.

Verville also leads an eponymous firm in Montreal and is well-known for experimental projects such as a black-and-white apartment that tricks the eye and a fairytale-like cottage in the forest.
For the studio project, Verville invited singer-songwriter Camille Poliquin ? leader of the Montreal electropop band KROY ? to participate.

Poliquin met with the studio's 15 students to discuss her work methods and the "rhythms, sequences, nuances and variations" that characterise her artistic vision. She then composed a song specifically for the studio and charged the students with creating an installation to accompany it.
Over the course of the semester, the students conceived a small installation for a snowy clearing on campus. The temporary structure consists of 15 white-painted plywood blocks in various shapes and sizes, which can be combined to form different landscapes ? some highly fractured, others more intact.
The students carried all of the pieces to the site by hand and tested out the different configurations.

"This stage led the group to work on in-situ adaptations of the elements, in order to explore the di...