This contemporary house sited on a densely built block in the Plateau Mont-Royal neighbourhood in Montréal, designed by Paul Bernier. This house created with natural light, appeasing, and thought with the day-to-day life in mind. The garden, an interior courtyard under the shade of trees, is defined by three buildings and a tall fence. It is a green room, the walls are clad with ivy, and the ground is covered with shade plants, river stones and a flat stone path that leads to an outdoor shower. The long wall made of sliding wood panels that separates the bedrooms from the rest of the house at night, opens up in the morning. From the bridge we can also see the living room through the semi-transparent floor and interact with the people below. Everywhere in the house we have tried to create openings or semi-transparent screens to let light thru and to allow spaces to interact. The stair made of steel and wood sits in this big volume opened up on three floors. This light filled space going up the stair that was designed with as few materials as possible to emphasize this impression of an object that lets light go through. In this space, the robust aspect of the cement rough coat wall and the steel stair reinforces this impression of ‘’being outside’’ given by the zenithal light. – Paul Bernier [Photos by Marc Cramer ]

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