Les maisons closes

Rue Coloniale, Montréal, Québec

1997 / 1998

Prize of Excellence
Ordre des architectes du Québec, 1998
Residential Architecture category

Marcel-Parizeau Prize
Ordre des architectes du Québec, 1998

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The maisons closes were created by transforming semi-detached duplexes into two cottages with cloistered gardens.

The concept illustrates our attempt to create, within a densely populated urban neighbourhood, self-contained single-family dwellings featuring the kind of intimacy and privacy characteristic of the European-style villa.

Area

2 x 2000 sq.ft.

Design team

Marie-Claude Hamelin, architect
Loukas Yiacouvakis, architect

Landscape architecture
Suzanne Rochon
Annie Ypperciel

Construction team

Michel Carlier
Guy Paquet
Marie-Claude Hamelin
Loukas Yiacouvakis

Project Manager
Marie-Claude Hamelin
Loukas Yiacouvakis

Pictures credits

Johanne Biffi