Rolo is a minimalist house situated in Morin-Heights, Canada, designed by Alain Carle Architecte. Earlier than the intervention of the area, the house owners had created a sequence of scattered and fragmented amenity areas on web site linked collectively by winding mountain climbing trails. The natural and momentary nature of those preliminary web site usages knowledgeable the start of the undertaking.
The conceptual premise was anchored to those momentary constructions in addition to respect to its unique state previous to the intervention. The topography of the plateau was maintained by dividing the construction into two volumes. One quantity homes the each day features of the house, whereas the opposite the nightly features. A glazed passageway unites the volumes whereas concurrently offering views of the horizon.
The residence was constructed primarily utilizing glue-laminated timber, permitting for prime ceilings and inside landscapes. As described by the architects: “The structural format is easy and obvious; expressing lightness and an ephemeral high quality of the intervention, in distinction with the extra everlasting side of the rocky hillside.”
Pictures by Félix Michaud.