From the road, the house looks like a modest contemporary cottage. It consists of four large interconnected modules with several offset façades reminiscent of a farm, with a central courtyard and outbuildings. Nestled in the vales of the Eastern Townships of Montreal, Canada, near the Vermont border, Abercorn Chalet is the brainchild of Laurent Guez, designer and partner at the Canadian design firm Tux Creative. He developed his vision for the project with architect Guillaume Kukucka.
Inspired by architecture, functionality, suspense novels, stories, and Escher’s drawings of improbable constructions, he reconciled lightness and humour with rigour and rationality. With his Montreal-based team at Tux, Abercorn Chalet was Laurent Guez attempt to create a unique living experience through architecture, embodying contrasts of harmony, open spaces and cosy areas: a place where…