Marquette Residence
Rosemont, QC
The project takes the form of a contemporary reconstruction over two levels, rooted in Rosemont’s fabric of red brick.
The front façade, cladded in black brick, engages in dialogue with the street and the past, restrained, dense, and aligned with its neighbors.
It addresses the school and the park like a familiar presence, quiet yet assured.
At the rear, the house opens outward. The light aluminum cladding reflects the light of the private garden, capturing shifting tones of sky and foliage.Between city and nature, between street and courtyard, two atmospheres respond to one another: one urban and contained, the other intimate and bathed in light. This duality shapes the project’s breathing—two faces, one place.
Inside, the architecture recedes to make room for atmosphere. The ground floor spaces flow seamlessly, living room, dining room, kitchen, forming a generous open plan where everyday gestures become rituals of sharing.
Light slides along the walls, shifting in intensity throughout the day, revealing the grain of wood, the softness of plaster, the transparency of glass.
A sculptural staircase, in steel and light wood, stands at the center of the living space. More than a connector between floors, it links moments of the day, the rhythms of the house, the voices of the family.Its clear, simple form makes it a landmark, a vertical heart where everything converges. Upstairs, the bedrooms are arranged with precision, each oriented toward a fragment of light: the park’s canopy, the calm of the garden, the path of the sun.The house unfolds like a sensitive score, balancing openness and retreat, sharing and silence.
The chosen materials extend the site’s memory while affirming a new era.
The black brick, dense and porous, speaks of permanence. The aluminum, light and reflective, expresses lightness, luminosity, the future. Wood, underfoot and along the stairs, brings warmth and humanity.
Together, they compose an architecture of sensations, where the hand recognizes matter and the eye finds comfort. Nothing here is ostentatious.Every detail seeks precision, not display.
Architecture does not impose itself, it tunes itself to the life it will shelter.
The Marquette Residence inscribes itself as a measured note in the urban landscape: neither a shout nor a disappearance, but a calm, meaningful presence.
Rebuilding this hollow tooth was about closing a wound in the neighborhood’s fabric, restoring continuity and coherence to the street.
Today, it is a singular home, distinct yet harmonious, contemporary yet rooted. A place to live rather than a form to behold: a space of light, warmth, and memory. A house rebuilt to last, but above all to welcome life, the life of this family, of this young boy, and of all the moments they will create there.
