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Roy-Lawrence Residence
Canadian Home: New Property in Sutton ? design by Chevalier Morales Architectes
13 Nov 2016
Roy-Lawrence Residence in Quebec
Design: Chevalier Morales Architectes
Location: Sutton, Quebec, Canada
Roy-Lawrence House

Located outside the village of Sutton, in Quebec?s eastern townships, the Roy-Lawrence Residence is set in a vast estate very much impregnated with the legacy of a Swiss immigrant family that came to Canada in the 1930s.

To this date, the surroundings of the residence are still defined by bucolic landscapes, iconic Swiss chalets and other buildings of similar nature that were erected along the years, always with a consistent touch of nostalgia.
Naturally, the icon of the Swiss chalet, ? somehow representing a lost ideal of country living ? became the starting point for the conceptual development of the residence. Its traditional tripartite composition consisting of a robust stone base, a solid-wood frame and of a strong protective roof was studied and analyzed in details.

Aiming to reinterpret in a contemporary manner these traditional elements, the final version of residence could be read as a composition of three distinct formal elements stacked on top of each other: a solid concrete base anchored to the rocky ground, a post and beam frame allowing total fenestration on the panorama, and a large protective roof which projects itself into an im...