{"id":7731,"date":"2026-05-07T19:14:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/?p=7731"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:07:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:07:48","slug":"atelier-carle-creates-unconventional-layout-for-hemlock-clad-quebec-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/atelier-carle-creates-unconventional-layout-for-hemlock-clad-quebec-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Atelier Carle creates “unconventional layout” for hemlock-clad Quebec house"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Montreal-based studio Atelier Carle<\/a> has completed a mountainside<\/a> house with wood<\/a> and board-formed concrete<\/a> finishes in Quebec<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Known as SONO Residence, the 214-square metre (2,300-square-foot) project was completed in 2025 in Wentworth-North.<\/p>\n

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Sono Residence is a home in Quebec with folded walls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Atelier Carle<\/a> founder Alain Carle said that the design was born from its context, and that its form was derived from “a colliding” of perspectives \u2013 to push against the way people think today.<\/p>\n

“Architecture is by no means a conceptual imposition, but rather the convergence of several heterogeneous perspectives that generate a language, a notion of the ‘common’,” Carle told Dezeen. “At a time when our minds are saturated with isolated voices that never even collide, we believe this alternative approach to design is essential.”<\/p>\n

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Glazed walls overlook the surroundings to the north<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The studio aimed to make the scale ambiguous, with a long, folded concrete wall \u2013 free of windows, broken only by the home’s entrance \u2013 that runs along the southern portion of the house.<\/p>\n

The wall has two purposes. It serves as a resilient retainer for snow and water that cascade down the mountain, and it conforms to the broader landscape, mimicking the stratified bedrock with a horizontal, board-formed pattern.<\/p>\n

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A windowless concrete wall lines the south end of the home<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The northern facade trades concrete for hemlock in both structure and cladding around the many windows that open the interiors to the panoramic views of the forested hillside.<\/p>\n

The studio worked with a local carpenter and structural engineer to source the hemlock from a nearby site and adapt it for the wooden structure away from the concrete wall.<\/p>\n