Le Pavillon Du Lac| St-Bruno, Québec, Canada | 2015

Architects: Daoust Lestage architecture design urbain paysage
Client: Constance Raymond
Contractor: Renouveau Domiciliaire Inc.
Photographers: Adrien Williams

Le Pavilion du Lac Set on a plot of land that gently slopes down toward a lake, this pavilion is surrounded on all sides by the exceptional vegetation of an old growth forest.

A guest house with two bedrooms, a kitchen, and living room, was built within very narrow constraints.

The structure was required to sit atop the footprint of an existing cabin, with a maximum area of 1240-square-foot, and had to be well integrated within the landscape.

To meet these demands, the conceptual approach was to create a completely transparent glass pavilion, covered by a vegetated roof that would appear to be continuous with the sloped terrain to the north.

The home would also be elevated above the earth, treading lightly on the forest floor below. The completed pavilion is framed between floor and ceiling, both structures cantilevered out toward the water, highlighting the horizontality of the construction and magnifying the views of the lake and the forest.

Reflective surfaces mirror the surrounding vegetation by day, and become completely transparent at night.

Every part of the pavilion is marked by careful detailing, from the clarity of the glazed exterior corners, to the expression of the floor and ceiling as single continuous planes, to the services that are concealed within a pure wooden volume that serves to separate the public and private spaces.

Le Pavilion du Lac, an architectural response to an exceptional site and client.