Project Name: Notre-Dame
Project Type: New Construction of Two Semi-Detached Triplexes
Location: Southwest Montreal
Area: 908 sq ft per floor
Construction Completion: 2019
Photographer: Maxime Brouillet
Structural Engineer: L2C
General Contractor: Cocoon Development-Construction Inc.
Award:
Named Building of the Year 2022 – ArchDaily
GRANDS PRIX DU DESIGN – 14th Edition
Discipline: Architecture
Categories and Awards:
• Residential Building / Rental or Condominium Building (< 5 stories): Silver Certification
• Other Architecture Categories / Building Façade: Silver Certification
• Special Awards / Wood Enhancement in Architecture: Bronze Certification
The Notre-Dame project set itself apart with its reinterpretation of the classical triplex, and its soft adaptation to its eastern neighbour. The new building acts as a semicolon, a necessary link between the Imposing residential complex and the remaining side of the street. The project reinterprets some of the neighbourhood themes while actualizing them. Thus, the traditional symmetrical volume, the volume Inside the protruded staircase, the exterior stairs, and the protruded and withdrawn faces are rearranged.
The protruded central volume reminds the protruded staircase of some Notre-Dame street’s neighbouring buildings. This central mass marks each entrance, but the precious and delicate treatment Is given using the screen. The same screen allows the light to come In, and to see the outside from the inside without compromising the Intimacy.
The burnt wood treatment of all the retracted areas ( faces and mezzanines) add an undeniable warmth at the hollow of the faces, on the terrace, and on the roof.