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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Window on the Lake in Quebec, Canada by yiacouvakis hamelin, architectesApril 18th, 2018 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: v2com A window on the lake: the very essence of the cottage. A warm, simple wood dwelling open to nature and a peaceful lake. The house stands on the site of an old family cottage, just steps away from the shores of Lac Plaisant in the Mauricie region. Thanks to its simplicity, restraint and refinement, the project embodies the architect’s attempt to capture the essence of cottage life – a wooden home designed for vacations and enabling true communion with nature.  Image Courtesy © Francis Pelletier
 Image Courtesy © Francis Pelletier Featuring wood construction inside and out, the house’s single large gable covers all living spaces. Sited in a small clearing, its foundation invisible, the home is a pure, light volume resting on a grassy carpet. Its architecture is restrained and its scale modest, in tune with the clearing and lake.  Image Courtesy © Francis Pelletier  Image Courtesy © Francis Pelletier The exterior, both roof and walls, is clad entirely in white cedar boards. Both of the building’s long sides feature three large, tall glass panels, allowing seamless transitions between interior and exterior spaces. The south side is all glass, creating a direct link between the lake and the living spaces, arranged under a large double-height gable extending outward to cover a small porch.  Image Courtesy © Francis Pelletier  Image Courtesy © Francis Pelletier The full transparency of the southern façade lets in ample sunlight in fall and winter, while the mature trees standing between house and lake moderate the summer sun and provide a high degree of privacy in boating season. The balloon frame, with its exposed wooden studs and joists painted white, gives the building a unique rhythm of shadow and light.  Image Courtesy © Francis Pelletier  Image Courtesy © Francis Pelletier The cottage has a relaxed character. It is a true family cottage that can sleep up to 12 in two ground-floor bedrooms and a large, open sleeping area on the second floor. This is the cottage as an expression of the art of living: a gentle, simple, pure way of life.  Image Courtesy © Francis Pelletier  Image Courtesy © Francis Pelletier About YH2 YH2 is an architectural design firm founded in 1994 by architects Marie-Claude Hamelin and Loukas Yiacouvakis.  Image Courtesy © Francis Pelletier  Image Courtesy © Francis Pelletier For YH2, the architectural process is not simply about finding a functional solution to a given problem; it is a creative and transformative tool for approaching the spaces we inhabit every day, a way to reinvent reality.  Image Courtesy © Francis Pelletier  Image Courtesy © Francis Pelletier The project should adapt itself to the context while transforming it. With every project, the focus is not only on form and essence, but also on the meaning of each element of the program.  Image Courtesy © Francis Pelletier  Image Courtesy © Francis Pelletier The resulting designs are composed in the language of simplicity and purism. Concepts are developed with economy of means, and each element must be essential to the overall design.  Image Courtesy © Francis Pelletier  Image Courtesy © Francis Pelletier  Image Courtesy © Francis Pelletier  Image Courtesy © yiacouvakis hamelin, architectes
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