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ACDF links old with the contemporary in new Montreal student housing design

2024-08-21T18:53:00-04:00

A student housing project combining heritage conservation with facadism, the new 19-story LINK design from ACDF Architecture, is now ready for use in Montreal’s Shaughnessy Village.

Just steps away from Concordia University and other local colleges, the project provides much-needed affordable housing options for students while reusing facades culled from the demolition of three existing Victorian structures with only a minimal sacrifice to its programmatic efficiency.

Photo: Adrien Williams

“Such a rehabilitation mission can generate an interesting return on investment for developers, and this approach, more sensitive to the context and built heritage, would have the merit of being much more contributive to the community, and thus a very interesting asset for the marketing of this residential rental project,” the firm’s president Maxime-Alexis Frappier explains in a press release.

Photo: Adrien Williams

The preservation of the past is such a key consideration here granted the extensi...

ACDF unveils Apple Tree House design in rural Quebec: 'A fluid work of art'

2022-12-30T14:44:00-05:00

Canadian studio ACDF Architecture has shared photos of their recent residential project in the country’s heavily-forested Lanaudière region.

Deep in the heart of rural Quebec, the home was designed for an urbanite family looking for an ultra-modern bucolic respite situated on a 250,000-square-foot plot with room to connect with each other and commune with nature.

The project was informed by the client’s deeply-felt connection to a childhood apple tree and relied on a relatively simple combination of glass and wood boxes that house different functions and are centered around a small open interior courtyard that showcases his arboreal inspiration.

“The home is designed for connectivity, and glances in every direction provide views across openings to other spaces,” the studio's principal and co-founder Maxime-Alexis Frappier said. “That being said, the boxes were designed to respect the need for privacy, and their...