La Cornette / YH2 Architecture

Jan 2011

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Architects: YH2 Architecture
Location: Quebec, Canada
Project Team: Marie-Claude Hamelin, Loukas Yiacouvakis
Builder: Emmanuel Yiacouvakis
Project Area: 3,000 sq ft
Project Year: 2008-2010
Photographs: Loukas Yiacouvakis & Francis Pelletier

Built on the slope of a small hill, La Cornette is a country house open to the pastoral landscape that surrounds it. Under a soaring roof resembling a nun’s cornet wimple is a roomy dwelling modelled on traditional Quebec houses of old that lodged large families and their relatives. This house for celebrations and holidays, designed for two families, is set into the naturally uneven terrain in a way that brings each level into direct contact with the surrounding natural environment. It offers a resting place for all guests under its large gable in a series of bedrooms and unusual sleeping areas.

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An out-scaled structure, like the agricultural buildings that surround it, the house is both traditional in its morphology and innovative in its use of materials. Shingled with raw fibre-cement panels on the walls and roof, it is a house beyond the domestic scale, simple and rot-proof, capable of standing the test of time. The house is striated with bands of horizontal windows, giant louvers that cut the sun at its most powerful, with new points of view at each level. It is protected by its wimple from the hot summer sun and inundated with light in the winter, needing neither air-conditioning nor heating on sunny days.

The interior is in wood, painted or natural, in planks or panels, composed almost exclusively of made-to-measure furniture pieces:

From the refectory table for meals to the day table with hideaway television set;
From the large wraparound couch in the living room to the stainless-steel kitchen island;
From the balustrade bookshelf along the stairway to the wall night-lights made of aluminum panels with cut-outs of fireflies, fish, and frogs;
From wall-to-wall beds where people sleep foot-to-foot to overhanging bunk beds floating in the landscape

It is a playground for architects, children, and adults, a vacation colony lost in the countryside.

: © Loukas Yiacouvakis

: © Loukas Yiacouvakis

: © Loukas Yiacouvakis

: © Francis Pelletier

: © Francis Pelletier

: © Francis Pelletier

: © Francis Pelletier

: © Francis Pelletier

: © Francis Pelletier

: © Francis Pelletier

: © Francis Pelletier

: © Francis Pelletier

: © Francis Pelletier

: © Francis Pelletier

: © Francis Pelletier

: © Francis Pelletier

: © Francis Pelletier

: © Francis Pelletier

: © Francis Pelletier

: © Francis Pelletier

: © Francis Pelletier

: © Francis Pelletier

: © Francis Pelletier

: © Francis Pelletier

: © Francis Pelletier

: © Francis Pelletier

: © Francis Pelletier

: © Francis Pelletier

: © Loukas Yiacouvakis

: © Francis Pelletier

: © Loukas Yiacouvakis

: site plan

: plan 01

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: north elevation

: south elevation

: west elevation

: east elevation

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* Location to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.

Cite:
Saieh , Nico . "La Cornette / YH2 Architecture" 25 Jan 2011. ArchDaily. Accessed 16 May 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/106291>

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æon says:

Where are the birds?

# January 25, 2011 at 23:53

simondroog says:

The oversized roof structure fascinates me… somehow it reminds me a little bit of Frank Lloyd Wright houses. Great example of dramatizing a haven: http://experiencingarchitecture.com/2010/04/13/dramatizing-a-haven/

# January 26, 2011 at 01:49

wpgmb says:

i’m sorry, but ugly as sin. too much going on at the same time.

# January 26, 2011 at 11:27

BK says:

wpgmb: agreed. Not a very clear design. A couple views from the outside make it look like an office building. The ceiling inside almost looks like a drop ceiling, quite odd.

# January 26, 2011 at 16:00

up_today_arch says: