Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
Résidence Le Grand Plateau (2014), LaurentiansThe Grand Plateau site overlooks Lac Heron in the Laurentians and has a striking beauty. The idea of creating a platform from which the view could be fully appreciated while respecting the natural balance of the site became obvious upon first visiting the site. From the arrival, the house presents itself as a generous belvedere offering a direct observation point on the lake below. Accessible from a footbridge linking it delicately to the main path, this large terrace is in fact the roof of the house, which is camouflaged on the lower level. Sober, the spatial arrangement is rigorously articulated according to a structural framework of nine squares acting as a basic grid to the composition and allowing the support on pilings minimizing the impact of the construction on the steep site. The house thus evokes its respect for the fragility and beauty of the landscape that graciously welcomes it.
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Alain Laforest
Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
Résidence Le Grand Plateau (2014), Laurentians
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Maxime Brouillet
Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
Résidence Le Grand Plateau (2014), Laurentians
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Maxime Brouillet
Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
Résidence Le Grand Plateau (2014), Laurentians
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Maxime Brouillet
Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
Résidence Les Abouts (2005), Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham, Centre du QuébecA woodland setting in the heart of the forest, this house is a place of communion where art and nature become one. Imagined for contemporary art collectors who dreamed of a spacious and warm home to display their works and accommodate their daily lives, the plan unfolds in two distinct parts separated by a central circulation. The first section, a single-storey building stretching over thirty meters, dialogues with the horizontal line of the river that circles the site. It seems to levitate above the ferns and mosses of the site, carefully maintained by the residents. In contrast, the second part rises on two floors, offering interior spaces that recall those of an art gallery. Everywhere, the openings frame views of the tree trunks, like landscape paintings that naturally dialog with the collected artworks.
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Maxime Brouillet
Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
Résidence Les Abouts (2005), Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham, Centre du Québec
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Maxime Brouillet
Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
Sketch of Résidence Les Abouts (2005), Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham, Centre du Québec
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Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
Grantham Foundation for Art and the Environment (2019), Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham, Centre du QuébecFondation Grantham would never have come into existence had it not been for the construction of Les Abouts fifteen years earlier: Over time, its residents developed a unique relationship with the forest, carefully nurturing the mosses, ferns and flowers of the land as precious and delicate works of art. This is how the idea of a space dedicated to art and the environment came to be. Once again calling upon Atelier Pierre Thibault, a space that would simultaneously embody a museum reserve, an artist's residence and an exhibition hall was sketched out and built near their house. Designed as a volume perched in the forest, the entire foundation floats several meters above the ground, creating an outdoor room on the ground that pushes the boundaries of traditional definitions of architecture, allowing to be simultaneously indoor and outdoor. Fondation Grantham and Les Abouts now form an indissociable dyptic that magnifies the environment with complementary compositional qualities.
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Maxime Brouillet
Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
Grantham Foundation for Art and the Environment (2019), Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham, Centre du Québec
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Maxime Brouillet
Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
Grantham Foundation for Art and the Environment (2019), Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham, Centre du Québec
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Maxime Brouillet
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Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
Sketch of the Grantham Foundation for Art and the Environment (2019), Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham, Centre du Québec
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Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
Belvedere of the Val-Jalbert hydroelectric plant (2015), Saguenay-Lac-Saint-JeanThe hydroeletric plant is located in a deserted industrial village turned into a touristic destination. Its strategic site, at the foot of the Ouiatchouan falls, demanded to reconcile the industrial nature of the project with the imperative to protect a precious heritage.The plant was therefore developed to highlight the touristic pathway, using its capacity to showcase the falls that gave the village its first reason of being. Covered by a larch lathing filtering light and intercepting frost, the concrete building appears partially buried. Its technical language, brutal yet delicate, evokes the sobriety of industrial structures. Perched above the empty air, cantilever valconies punctuate the walkaway and expose the visitors to views of the fall, the river and the historical mill.
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Alain Laforest
Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
Belvedere of the Val-Jalbert hydroelectric plant (2015), Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean
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Alain Laforest
Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
Residence du Lac Brome (2020), Eastern TownshipsLike in a museum, the Lac-Brome house reveals, highlights, frames, accentuates, gathers or isolates elements of the exterior context with accuracy and sensitivity, creating a constant dialogue between the architecture and the landscape. Composed of wood and stone, it relies on the durability and nobility of natural materials and their combination to blend into its environment, which is characterized by the proximity of a huge lake, in a refined and elegant manner. At certain key moments, dazzling visual breakthroughs cross the house , offering unique gazing points toward it. Conversely, in the master suite, an interior garden surrounds a tree, decontextualizing it as an art object. From these simple basic principles, an infinite number of configurations and spatial qualities can be achieved. The search for the right gesture, for balance, is a constant concern.
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Maxime Brouillet
Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
Residence du Lac Brome (2020), Eastern Townships
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Maxime Brouillet
Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
Abbaye Val Notre-Dame (2009), LanaudièreIn the heart of a forest in Saint-Jean-de-Matha, a monastic community breathes in harmony with the trees that surround it. Seven services a day mark the daily life of these men who dreamed of an architecture that would reflect the inner peace and simplicity they cultivate continually. Atelier Pierre Thibault thus imagined for them a new abbey that gradually winds around the cloister and culminates by the church. At its heart, a piece of forest brings the spaces to life as the days and seasons go by. The project was completed nearly twenty years ago, and has since lived in symbiosis with the territory that hosts it, both imbued with a quiet and peaceful strength.
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Alain Laforest
Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
Abbaye Val Notre-Dame (2009), Lanaudière
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Alain Laforest
Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
Residence La Grande Percée (2017), New BrunswickThe Leblanc residence is an ode to the beauty of the surrounding landscape. Highlighting the line of force of the horizon, the project takes the form of a large slender gesture surmounted by a floating roof evoking the lightness of constructions on stilts by the sea. The interior spaces have been divided into two pavilions. The first, more partitioned and opaque, accommodates several bedrooms as well as the entrance which offers a striking visual breakthrough crossing the building and propelling the gaze towards the sea. The second pavilion, generously fenestrated, contains the living spaces and invites contemplation and the appropriation of the strike.
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Maxime Brouillet
Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
Residence La Grande Percée (2017), New Brunswick
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Maxime Brouillet
Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier en mouvement (2015), several regions
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Atelier Pierre Thibault
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Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
More than 50 models presented during the Territories and Landscapes exhibition made their way to Paris
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Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
New pavilion for Collège Durocher (2022), Saint-Lambert, MontérégieIn the center of the existing main building, the old unused amphitheater has been completely renovated in order to renew the way of living in the College. This formerly obsolete, closed and opaque place has been decompartmentalized and redesigned to make it an open space, gathering, passage and transition, the Heart. The double height and the glazed hall let in plenty of light, which joins the wide bleachers at the very back. Smallmodular study cabins allow you to work in groups of varying sizes. The sound of the place has also been studied to maintain a cozy atmosphere despite its size. Fabric acoustic panels and an angled wood slat ceiling were installed in the upper part to improve the reverberation of the double height and create an atmosphere conducive to both discussions and workshops.
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Maxime Brouillet
Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
New pavilion for Collège Durocher (2022), Saint-Lambert, Montérégie
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Maxime Brouillet
Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
Collège Sainte-Anne (2022), Montréal
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Maxime Brouillet
Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
Résidence Maison du Cap (2021), Beaupré, CharlevoixPerched on a headland in the middle of the Quebec forest, La maison du Cap hovers over ferns, rocks and moss. Designed as an island within an island, the project is organized in a manner where all the living spaces are surrounded by a large wooden terrace hanging over the luxurious vegetation cover. With a rectangular plan shape, the house offers unusual proportions nicely contrasting with the slender verticality of the trees. The traditional dual-pitch roof is revisited to inverse its proportions; the ridge is positioned on the short side. The clients like saying that the surprising shape of the house reminds them the close-by mountain for which they fell in love when acquiringthe lot. Highly interesting contrasts can be observed on site.
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Maxime Brouillet
Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
Résidence Maison du Cap (2021), Beaupré, Charlevoix
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Maxime Brouillet
Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
Résidence Maison du Cap (2021), Beaupré, Charlevoix
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Maxime Brouillet
Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
Saint-Laurent Pavilion (2022), Baie-Saint-Paul, CharlevoixWith the objective of deep respect for the landscape, the spirit of the place and the regional architecture, the Pavillon du Saint- Laurent is located in Baie-Saint-Paul. Both modest in size and ambitious in terms of architectural qualities and programmatic offer, the Pavillon du Saint-Laurent takes up the ambitious challenge of reconciling a tight municipal budget with a desire for excellence and exemplary practice. Using wood in multiple ways, it shines with its sobriety, its pure lines and its elegance in the striking landscape of the region. Consisting of a multi-purpose showroom, offices, a sanitary block and an autonomous rental space, the project nevertheless takes shape as a single delicate line. Echoing regional construction traditions, its structural system of glued laminated timber is nevertheless resolutely anchored in the present thanks to its pure architectural lines and refined details. The result blends seamlessly into the landscape of Baie-Saint-Paul.
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Maxime Brouillet
Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
Saint-Laurent Pavilion (2022), Baie-Saint-Paul, Charlevoix
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Maxime Brouillet
Territories and Landscapes Exhibition in Paris by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault
La Véranda, an installation for the Reford Gardens, completed in 2021The veranda symbolizes the porch of an archetypal house, the walls fade to reveal the free plan of an open-air house, like a simple room. It transforms the imagination, inviting people to enter, rediscover, imagine this space now synonymous with confinement.Simple and versatile, this space was intended to be a modest representation of this typical place of meeting and exchange. The exploration of several forms, in sketches and models has thus made it possible to identify various spatial concepts metamorphosing in the veranda such as the grid, the plan, the frame, the surfaces... defining both constructive strategies and inducing the idea of proportion, of rhythm respectful of the site of use and users.
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Edgar Fritz
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