He loft type department called Rue de la Gauchetière is located in the old port of Montreal, one of the first neighborhoods of the city, in a emblematic building He is over a hundred years old. The renewal project was in charge of the Canadian architecture office FUTURE SIMPLE STUDIOwhose main mission was to integrate the home into the nature of the San Lorenzo River, in an urban space with industrial origins.
The Minimalist elegance From the restored department it is expressed through an equally simple but powerful concept: A box inside another box. Thus, in the first phase of the project, two volumes of wood and glass were placed within the concrete structure, to contain the new bedrooms. Consequently, social and passage spaces, such as the kitchen, the room, the dining room, the study and the living room, were located on the periphery, in a program that The study describes as «fluid and open».
The project wanted to maintain an industrial look with warm and nature details.Felix Michaud
Surprise box
“Having flexibility and light as priorities, we quickly begin to conceptualize alternatives for the ubiquitous room of 'Drywall With folding door ', which is imposed in large part of the residential interior design, ”explained the office led by architects Christine Djerrahian and Ernst van Ter Beek. Its solution, – the new minimalist, convertible and wood volume, placed within the open space – creates new possibilities for the old department.
To begin, it gives a new dimension to the relationship with the windows and the views from the department, capturing moments such as The entry of light and shadowsthat become part of the inner landscape. HE increases the interest of the tourwhen generating corridors (which do not feel suffocating thanks to the transparency of the glass) with visually shocking auctions.
Mirrors surfaces visually enlarged space.Felix Michaud
Light becomes another element of interior design.Felix Michaud
There is a set of reflective, transparent and then solid layers, such as concrete or brick, which provides a minimalist, but complex elegance.
“At the same time object and architecture, the bedroom was made as a kit of custom -made partswhich includes everything: From the panels and ceiling partto soils and furniture, ”the office described. Automated blinds – both transparent as Blackout— transform the volume of a private room to A light box.