Hidden in a Canadian forest, the house in the images below seem rather an optical illusion than what is in reality, the home of a family of four. With its unusual architecture, the house seems a ghost in the woods who came across the one who dared to beat the paths of this hardwood forest. Built two steps away from Quebec City, the house perfectly combines a contemporary design, ambitious and unique, with modern and comfortable interiors.
The house has two distinct bodies, but attached so that from any angle you look, the house seems to float like a mist over the green space. The architect built the two volumes in the form of some prisms that integrate seamlessly into the environment, seeming two huge pine cones. In reality, the architect who put his signature on this project, Jean Verville, sought to give an artistic expression to the unusual shapes, symbolizing the difference and the struggle between darkness and light. The photos taken in the winter best exemplify this vision.
Leaving aside the imagination of the architect, the house offers various interior spaces that are each connected with the outside thanks to the glass walls. At the top of each of the two volumes are located the bedrooms, one for children with bunk beds for space saving, and one for their parents. The remaining rooms are reserved to living spaces that open on terraces located around the house, one of them arranged under a sector in relief of this house. One of the bathrooms is also located in the suspended corner of one of the two prisms.
The interiors are lined with wood, a natural extension of the environment in which the house is situated. Here and there, the architect placed black spots that mimic the facades in the same shade. In the modern kitchen, a refurbished wooden table is a surprising presence, again the bold idea of an unconventional architect. From one end to the other, even on the hallways, geometric shapes that mimic at a smaller scale the daring architecture of the house, succeed freely.
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