Canadian Architects Design Woodland House with Shingle Cladding in Quebec Forest
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Kate Mazade
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Summary
Canadian architecture studios Oyama and Julia Manaćas Architecte designed Waterhouse, a 260-square-metre woodland residence in Sutton, Quebec that blends into its natural forest clearing. The house features wood shingle cladding, a fluid composition that responds to the surrounding landscape of ponds, ferns, boulders, and rolling hills leading to the Green Mountains. The design emphasizes integration with nature through its materials, forms, and siting.
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The 260-square-metre (2,800-square-foot) residence sits in a forest opening, surrounded by a pond, ferns, boulders, wildflowers and rolling hills that rise to the Green Mountains in the distance.
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