MaisonCinq
A four-storey townhouse rebuilt around a single shaft of north light. The original brick shell remains; everything inside is poured concrete, white oak, and air.
- Location
- Mile End, Montréal
- Year
- 2024
- Status
- Built
- Typology
- Private residence
- Area
- 412 m²
- Client
- Withheld
The brief was modest in shape and immodest in ambition: keep the street facade, lose the rest, and make a house that breathes north light from cellar to roof.
We carved a single light well through the centre of the volume — a 9.2-metre vertical cut lined in lime-washed plaster. Every room negotiates with this shaft. Bathrooms borrow it through frosted glass; the kitchen receives it as a long diagonal across the island; the bedrooms touch it through deep oak reveals.
Mechanical systems are buried in the slab. There are no visible vents, no surface-mounted fixtures, no skirting boards. Light is the only ornament.
- — Lemay & Fils — structure
- — Atelier Bois — millwork
