Cottage on the Point / Montreal

 

Cottage on the Point / Montreal 

Photo credit: Raphaël Thibodeau

The clients owned this log cabin which has been in the family for 40 years. It is anchored on a rocky point which juts out into the lake.

The project to be carried out was to completely renovate this cottage and expand it to make it an open, fluid, and bright space that takes advantage of the beautiful views overlooking the lake.

The proximity to the shore led the architects to plan the extension on top rather than on the sides. Only the screened porch was added at ground level so there was a challenge there. How to add a floor to this typical small log cabin with its sloping roof without denaturing it and losing its trace? The solution was not to pretend that this addition had always been there. The project had to allow the old and the new to be clearly visible.

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