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There are multiple accesses to the building without a specific
hierarchy. In continuity with the landscape, these accesses have a fluid
relationship with the lower spaces, where the indifferenciation of the
building’s internal traffic system seeks to engage a non-hierarchical
relationship with the landscape (see the typically suburban context of
the neighboring structures).

Only a central space situated at the intersection of the three wood
structures constitutes a place of convergence for the three generations
inhabiting the complex. This metaphorically is the meeting place, a
“public place” materially inscribed in the permanence of the mineral
structure. This is the founding place of the complex, inscribed in
movement. This possibility of moving between the internal and
external parts of the building engages a type of open use, a possibility
of reconfiguration of the occupations of the spaces over time as if
each of the three structures could be reconfigured according to the
changes of use.

In a certain way, the essence of the project resides in the relationship
between the necessity of creating a temporality for every built
structure, of inscribing the concept of space in time, or at least in
anticipation of time. dw
Photo credit: Raphael Thibodeau

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