Article source: Atelier Pierre Thibault

At our first visit to Lake Heron in the Laurentides, we ended up in a forest enflamed by fall. We borrowed a small path to reach the top of the site where we found a clearing atop a promontory. We could contemplate the lake which was about 60 meters below. Small but sinuous, it gave the impression that a meander hid the invisible part of a larger lake. The silhouette of the mountains loomed in the distance. The scenery was of immense beauty. We all gasped discovering the site that day. We went down quietly through different ecosystems dotted with magnificent rocks. I remember a small forest of spruces with a constricted path the caused a rhythmic vertical which filtered the horizontality of the water.

• Architects: Atelier Pierre Thibault
• Project: Le Grand Plateau
• Location: Lake Heron, Canada
• Photography: Alain Laforest
• Software used: sketches and to-scale models
• Design Team: Pierre Thibault & Jérôme Lapierre
• Area: 1 650 pi²
• Year: 2014

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