Set on a steeply sloping website in Bromont, a mountainous area to the east of Montreal, a brand new Québec home by Marie Isabelle Gauthier and Sylvain Bélanger of Muuk Structure seems to be embedded within the surrounding wooded panorama.
Mountainside Residence in Bromont, Quebec, by Muuk Structure
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Tour a Québec home that cleverly balances open plan with open views
As you method Muuk’s Mountainside Residence, the construction seems to be a single-storey, pitched-roof construction, incorporating ribbons of glazing into stone partitions and a darkish metal roof. The home really steps down one other stage, because of the grading of the location, with all residing areas occupying the higher flooring beneath tall ceilings that attain as much as the underside of the roof.
The doorway porch is about alongside a window that reveals the panorama by the construction
(Picture credit score: Mountainside Residence in Bromont, Quebec, by Muuk Structure)
The concrete floor flooring encloses a small courtyard
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Organized throughout 3,100 sq ft (roughly 288 sq m), the brand new residence is sparingly detailed, with the emphasis on hard-wearing, pure supplies that ought to age gracefully inside and outside. The doorway porch is about alongside a window that reaches up into the roof slope, offering a view proper by the home to the panorama past. It’s flanked by a stone-clad wall that’s mirrored by a tall stone chimney breast contained in the hovering open-plan residing area.
The principle open-plan residing area
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The stone is contrasted with white partitions, timber cladding and beneficiant glazing. The chimney breast buildings additionally serves an exterior hearth, set in a beneficiant open porch beneath one of many gable ends, making a residing area that reaches into the forest. The opposite gable wall is flanked with darkish metal cladding that matches the roof, above a decrease storey shaped from tough concrete.
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The latter materials serves to anchor the home within the hillside, in addition to enclose a courtyard on the identical stage because the forest flooring. Though a lot of the home’s bedrooms are on this decrease flooring, the first suite adjoins the residing, eating and kitchen space, with a spectacular view from glazed partitions set at cover stage.
The first bed room seems to achieve out into the cover
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An exterior residing area and terrace is about beneath the pitched roof
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The interiors had been designed in collaboration with Montreal-based studio Les Stéphanies and makes use of a heat, minimal palette that doesn’t distract from the sylvan views. Pure tones have been used all through, with built-in furnishings and discreet lighting decisions. Easy items, just like the monumental timber eating desk, add to the architectural construction of the first area.
The home is raised up on a concrete floor flooring
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Based in 2017 by Sylvain Bélanger, Marie Isabelle Gauthier, and Alexandre Gauthier, Muuk Structure is predicated within the coronary heart of the area. Specialising in residential works that embrace the spectacular native topography, the studio additionally has a robust environmental focus, striving to make buildings with minimal power use in order that they sit frivolously on the land.
Considered from outdoors, the first bed room sits atop of the concrete plinth
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The Mountainside Residence in context
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